What If Python Replaced Elisp?

[Moshe Zadka]

On 10 Mar 2000, Justin Sheehy wrote:

> kragen at dnaco.net (Kragen Sitaker) writes:
> 
> > Well, Python is probably not as hard to optimize as Lisp and Scheme
> > dialects.
> 
> This is an interesting statement.  On what do you base it?

I don't know any Lisp (I assume he means Common Lisp) but Scheme is
*almost* as dynamic as Python. What's more a reasonable subset of Python
(toss out eval, exec and looking too quizzically at sys.exc_info()) is
easily described via compilation to Scheme. Hence any Scheme optimization
can be a Python optimization.

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