merits of Lisp vs Python

[greg]

Juan R. wrote:

> I see no dinamism on your example, just static overloading.

There's nothing static about it:

   q = raw_input()
   if q == "A":
     a = 1
     b = 2
   else:
     a = "x"
     b = "y"
   c = a + b

There is no way that the compiler can statically
determine what the + operator needs to do here.

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Greg