merits of Lisp vs Python

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On 2006-12-17 07:54:28 -0500, Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com> said:

> After all,
> Haskell and OCaml are more popular that any given Lisp variant with similar
> features (e.g. pattern matching), AFAIK.

What doublespeak!

haskell and ocaml are more popular than any lisp library that tries to 
imitate Haskell and ocaml. So what! This only speaks to the relative 
unpopularity of imitating these features of haskell and ocaml when you 
already have lisp.