merits of Lisp vs Python

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Kaz Kylheku a écrit :
> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
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>>André Thieme a écrit :
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>>>Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb:
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>>(snip)
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>>>>Both are highly dynamic. Neither are declarative.
>>>
>>>
>>>Well, Lisp does support some declarative features in the ansi standard.
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>>If you go that way, there are declarative stuff in Python too... But
>>neither Lisp nor Python are close to, say, SQL.
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> False. Common Lisp can be made to support SQL syntax.
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And Python can be made to support something really close to it, cf 
SQLAlchemy. And Python has list comprehensions, which are mostly on the 
declarative side (ie : "what, not how"):

[x for x in range(100) if x % 2 == 0]

Etc, etc, etc...