Benefits of moving from Python to Common Lisp?

[Bob Bane]

Chris Ryland wrote:
> 
> I went back and forth with Paul a few times re: Lisp vs. Python, and
> in the end the only really serious differences we could come up with
> were (a) Lisp's universal (i.e., non-) syntax makes it easy to write
> little languages and to use macros, and (b) Lisp compilers exist today
> which produce quite a bit more efficient code than Python's
> interpreter can do. [Forgive me, Paul, if I'm mis-remembering.]
> 
	<snip>
> 
> (b) is only a matter of time & will.
> 

It's also a matter of having a non-moving target to aim at.  When Python
has a specification stronger than N portable implementations and a test
suite, compiler writers will have a target worth expending effort to
hit.

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