merits of Lisp vs Python

[John Nagle]

John J. Lee wrote:
> 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

    No, haven't started to deal with that yet.  Still using
CGI.  Not sure whether to use mod_python or fastcgi for the
small requests where the Python load time swamps the time
to do one SQL select and reply.  Comments?

				John Nagle