Python vs. Lisp -- please explain

[Kay Schluehr]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> But over time, as PyPy, Psycho, and other technologies bear fruit, Python
> will speed up, even though it will remain interpreted.

I talked to Richard Emslie recently and he told me that the PyPy team
works on a mechanism to create CPython-extension modules written in
RPython i.e. a statically translateable subset of Python. So even
without dynamic code specialization there will be an optimization path
based on the PyPy toolchain that is amazing. 

Kay