merits of Lisp vs Python

Slawomir Nowaczyk slawomir.nowaczyk.847 at student.lu.se
Tue Dec 12 18:12:09 EST 2006


On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:21:48 -0800
I V <wrongbad at gmail.com> wrote:

#> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:24:07 -0500, Ken Tilton wrote:
#> > Also, Python does not support a functional style of programming so
#> > the line is the only meaningful textual entity. In this sense the
#> > primitiveness of Python makes editing easier.
#> 
#> Why do you say that? Wouldn't a block in python be a "meaningful
#> textual entity" in the same way a lisp form would be?

No, it wouldn't, because that would make the argument false ;)

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