merits of Lisp vs Python

[Gabriel Genellina]

On 8 dic, 23:00, "JShra... at gmail.com" <JShra... at gmail.com> wrote:

> semantics. More importantly, even if I grant you that it's not trivial
> (which I'm happy to so stipulate) my point was that YOU COULD do this
> if YOU wanted, whereas in Python, YOU COULD NOT unless GUIDO wanted.
> QED.

Not true. You could also build closure/coroutine support in pure
python, without needing to change the interpreter. All the required
introspection mechanisms, stack analysis, etc. were there for a long
time.
In fact it was done on 2000 or earlier:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2000-October/000543.html

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Gabriel Genellina