merits of Lisp vs Python

[Bill Atkins]

greg <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

>>>Having edited both Lisp and Python code fairly
>>>extensively,
>>
>> How extensively?
>
> Enough to know what I'm talking about. Tens
> of thousands of lines of Lisp and Scheme, and
> hundreds of thousands of lines of Python, I
> would estimate.
>
> Seeing as you asked, how much Python code have
> you or Ken edited?

To be honest, very little Python code.  But I have manually indented
and rearranged enough code in other line-based languages to appreciate
the convenience of s-expression-based commands.