Trying to decide between PHP and Python

[BartC]

"Ben Finney" <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote in message 
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> Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.com.pl> writes:
>
>> 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...
>
> Perhaps Lisp is a simpler language to parse than Python.
>
> Perhaps a machine with only one instruction
> <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer> is
> simpler to implement than one with a broader instruction set.

One with zero instructions might be even simpler than that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_instruction_set_computer

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Bartc