merits of Lisp vs Python

[John J. Lee]

John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:
[...]
>     Python, on the other hand, is uphill all the way.  Constant trouble
> with version issues, especially with C components called from Python.
> MySQLdb, M2Crypto, SSL - they all have platform/version
> incompatibility problems.  I just spent three days making M2Crypto
> work on a new Linux server with a different Red Hat version.
> Neither Python's packaging tools nor the platform's packaging
> tools deal adequately with these issues.
[...]

You haven't been using mod_python, by any chance?


John