merits of Lisp vs Python

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Paddy wrote:
> Robert Uhl wrote:
>
> > Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> writes:
> > >
> > > Speaking as somebody who programmed in FORTH for a while, that doesn't
> > > impress me much. Prefix/postfix notation is, generally speaking, more
> > > of a pain in the rear end than it is worth, even if it saves you a
> > > tiny bit of thought when pasting code.
> >
> > Of course, you use prefix notation all the time in Python:
> >
> >   for x in range(0,len(y)):
> >     dosomething(x)
>
> In Python, most containers are directly iterable so we are much more
> likely to arrange our program to use:
> for a in y:
>   dosomethingwith(a)
>
> -Paddy.

Or the more succinct Python (FP) construct:

map(dosomething, y)