Trying to decide between PHP and Python

Tomasz Rola rtomek at ceti.com.pl
Tue Jan 4 20:51:29 EST 2011


On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Roy Smith wrote:

> In article <4D23A29D.7030104 at yahoo.com>, Alan Meyer <ameyer2 at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > On 1/4/2011 4:22 PM, Google Poster wrote:
> > 
> > > The syntax reminds me of Lots of Interspersed Silly Parentheses
> > > (L.I.S.P.), but without the parentheses.
> > 
> > I haven't heard that version before.  The one I heard was:
> > 
> > "Lots of Irritating Single Parentheses".
> > 
> >     Alan
> 
> Long Involved Stupid Parentheses.

Heh. One day, guys, when you have nothing better to do, try writing a 
parser for Lisp-like language (Common Lisp, Scheme, whatever). After that, 
do the same with some other language of your preference (Python, Java, 
whatever). Compare time and code spent...

Regards :-)
Tomasz Rola

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