merits of Lisp vs Python

JShrager at gmail.com JShrager at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 21:00:30 EST 2006


> Yeah, Lisp macros are Turing-complete and you could basically
> implement a coroutine-supporting compiler out of macros and do all of
> the above, but the target language wouldn't be Lisp any more.

First off, it probably would be Lisp, but this is a mere issue of
semantics. More importantly, even if I grant you that it's not trivial
(which I'm happy to so stipulate) my point was that YOU COULD do this
if YOU wanted, whereas in Python, YOU COULD NOT unless GUIDO wanted.
QED.




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