merits of Lisp vs Python

[Jon Harrop]

Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
> haskell and ocaml are more popular than any lisp library that tries to
> imitate Haskell and ocaml.

Implementing pattern matching does not mean imitating Haskell or OCaml.

> This only speaks to the relative  
> unpopularity of imitating these features of haskell and ocaml when you
> already have lisp.

On the contrary, Lisp predates the features and, since their inception, most
Lisp programmers have moved on to newer languages.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
Objective CAML for Scientists
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