merits of Lisp vs Python

[Juan R.]

philip.armitage at gmail.com ha escrito:

> Juan R. wrote:
> > philip.armitage at gmail.com ha escrito:
> > > - Lisp is hard to learn (because of all those parenthesis)
> >
> > I cannot understand why. It is like if you claim that packaging things
> > in boxes is difficult to learn.
> >
> > HTML and XML have more brackets than LISP (usually double) for
> > structuring data and everyone has learned HTML.
>
> I think maybe you missed the point I was making.

Yes i did, sorry

> To make it clearer I'm saying that the arguments that are being made
> over and over again against Lisp in this thread have been the
> antithesis of my experience since moving from Python to Lisp.
>
> I just prefer personal experience to popular misconceptions :-)

I often count 'parentheses' used in other approaches.

E.g. the LISP-based

[HTML [@:XMLNS http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml]
  [HEAD
   [TITLE Test page]]
  [BODY]]

is SLiP (Python)

html(xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"):
    head():
        title(): "Test page"
        body():

LISP-based:
5 (
5 )
1 @
1 :

Python: 
4 (
4 )
1 =
4 "
4 :