merits of Lisp vs Python

[Ken Tilton]

Alex Mizrahi wrote:
> (message (Hello 'Ken)
> (you :wrote  :on '(Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:26:02 -0500))
> (
> 
>  KT> keep the Pythonistas from straying. But you have an excuse: Lispniks
>  KT> always /talk/ about macros giving us the ability to create a DSL. But
>  KT> no one does. :)
> 
> certainly there's no reason to make a new DSL each day, but sometimes they 
> are good.
> i've recently posted an example of DSL to do queries to RDF data base -- i 
> find it's very helpful.

That is different. Your very objective /was/ a language. Naturally, you 
created one. I am talking about PGs suggestion that the best way to 
solve a problem is to create a language for that problem and then use 
it. What I think happens more often is the other thing Graham said: 
building up CL to be a better language for the problem. So the language 
is still predominantly and visibly CL, and here and there are chunks of 
macrology hiding a crapload of boilerplate.

ken

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