Lisp vs. Java article

[Henrik Ekelund]

<dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.999982630.7193.python-list at python.org>...
> Slashdot has a link to this interesting study that pushes Lisp as an
> alternative to using Java:
> 
> http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/gat/lisp-study.html
> 
> Although not related to Python, there's enough parallels to Python vs
> Java/C++/etc to make it useful for those discussions with management on
> why they need to get over their misconceptions and not be afraid of using
> Python in production.
> 
> -Dave

Probably the argument about shorter development time holds for Python
as well as Lisp. But to be honest the argument about execution speed
does not hold. Lisp has real compilers, Python is bytecode
interpreted.

- Henrik