merits of Lisp vs Python

George Sakkis george.sakkis at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 11:33:32 EST 2006


Alex Mizrahi wrote:

> (message (Hello 'Istvan)
> (you :wrote  :on '(8 Dec 2006 06:11:20 -0800))
> (
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>  ??>> seems to show that Python is a cut down (no macros) version of Lisp
>  ??>> with a worse performance.
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>  IA> or maybe it shows that Lisp is an obfuscated version of Python
>
> hell no, lisp's syntax is much easier than python's since it's homogenous

It sure is easier... if you're a compiler rather than a human. Also a
lightbulb is much easier understood as a bunch of homogeneous elemental
particles.

George




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