Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> writes:
> In general, there are very few methodological studies on the
> effectiveness of different languages on general purpose
> programming problems when used by sets of people with
> roughly comparable experience.  The only other one I have
> is Prechelt's "An empirical comparison ..."
>         http://www.ipd.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/
> with the followup of Java v. Lisp at
>         http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf
> That data also suggests that Tcl/Perl/Python/Lisp development time
> is comparable.

I'd be  interested in  a comparison of  maintenance time.   Perl feels
like a write-only language.


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