merits of Lisp vs Python

[Lars Rune Nøstdal]

On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:36:02 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:38:02 -0800, Wolfram Fenske wrote:
> 
>> if Common Lisp didn't have CLOS, its object system, I could write my own
>> as a library and it would be just as powerful and just as easy to use as
>> the system Common Lisp already provides.  Stuff like this is impossible
>> in other languages.
> 
> Dude. Turing Complete. Don't you Lisp developers know anything about
> computer science?
> 
> Anything any language can do is possible in any other language, if you are
> willing to write your own libraries.

*lol* Good luck with that attitude:
  http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/troglodyte.htm

..or did you forget to add "in theory"; which is of course what everyone
already knows as they see their compilers do it every day.

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Lars Rune Nøstdal
http://nostdal.org/