merits of Lisp vs Python

[Slawomir Nowaczyk]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:11:37 -0500
Ken Tilton <kentilton at gmail.com> wrote:

#> Lisp has all the cool qualities you like in your pets, plus native 
#> compilation in most implementations, plus maturity and a standard, plus 
#> a better OO, plus macros, plus a dozen more small wins. Including 
#> automatic indentation. :)

Automatic indentation? Wow, that's cool... we in Python need to press
RET and sometimes even use this ugly ":" or "<TAB>" key to get proper
indentation.

Oh, wait, you mean you need to type "(" and ")" in Lisp?

What's automatic about *that*???

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   Slawomir Nowaczyk
     ( Slawomir.Nowaczyk at cs.lth.se )

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