Python -- (just) a successful experiment?

[Paul Rubin]

Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> writes:
> The second presentation (I don't recall the speaker's name) specifically
> covered metaprogramming (writing DSLs) and one of the things I found
> interesting was that despite Ruby having far more syntax than Python in
> general, the resulting Ruby-based DSLs presented had far *less* syntax
> than had they been written in Python.  This is undoubtedly the reason
> why Rails is apparently completely usable even if one knows very little
> Ruby.

Interesting.  But if we can generalize from that, then Lisp should be
ruling the web.