merits of Lisp vs Python

[Ken Tilton]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Ken Tilton <kentilton at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>Oh, my. time to trot out my "hey, X is cool, let's use it for
>>everything!" rant.
> 
> 
> Somehow it's something other than a rant if X is Lisp?

Ah, your discriminator misfired. Keep your eye on the bouncing rant:

I was not espousing any language, I was espousing matching the tool to 
the task. That segued into my Lisp ball of mud rant, but, hell, even C 
offers iteration along with recursion. That observation turns the rant 
back on all-x-all-the-time languages, including I would note Steele's 
constraint programming language, which at first used a constraint to do 
variable assignment. Speaking of Cells...

:)

ken

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