Why don't people like lisp?

[Bjorn Pettersen]

"Donn Cave" <donn at drizzle.com> wrote in news:1067059881.277884 at yasure:

> Quoth "Rainer Deyke" <rainerd at eldwood.com>:
> ...
>| I understand both the specification and the implementation of
>| finalization in Python, as well as the reasoning behind them.  My
>| point is, I would prefer it if Python guaranteed immediate
>| finalization of unreferenced objects.  Maybe I'll write a PEP about
>| if someday. 
> 
> Write code first!  I think most would see it as a good thing,
> but I have the impression from somewhere that a guarantee of
> immediate finalization might not be a practical possibility,
> given reference cycles etc.

google for 'tofte talpin region analysis'. 

-- bjorn