merits of Lisp vs Python

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Paul Rubin wrote:
>
> [...]  There are programs you can write in C
> but not in Lisp, like device drivers that poke specific machine
> addresses.
>

I should assume you meant Common Lisp, but there isn't really any
reason you couldn't

     (poke destination (peek source))

in some version of Lisp that was meant for writing device drivers
(perhaps under a Lisp machine or something).

SIOD actually has (%%% memref address) for peek.