merits of Lisp vs Python

[André Thieme]

Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb:
> Mathias Panzenboeck a écrit :
>> Mark Tarver wrote:
>>
>>> How do you compare Python to Lisp?  What specific advantages do you
>>> think that one has over the other?
>>>
>>> Note I'm not a Python person and I have no axes to grind here.  This is
>>> just a question for my general education.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>>
>> I do not know much about Lisp. What I know is:
>> Python is a imperative, object oriented dynamic language with duck 
>> typing,
> 
> Python is a dynamic multi-paradigm language which is mostly OO but has 
> support for procedural and functional programming
> 
>> List
> 
> s/s/p/
> 
>> is a declarative,
>> functional dynamic language -> those two languages have different scopes.
> 
> Lisp is a multi-paradigm language which is mostly functional but has 
> support for procedural and OO programming.
> 
> Both are highly dynamic. Neither are declarative.

Well, Lisp does support some declarative features in the ansi standard.
Think about :before or :after methods. And with some days of work (has
already been done, so most Lispers could use it as a lib) you can get
many parts of Prolog. See  http://bc.tech.coop/blog/040919.html


André
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