Re: Comparison of Lisp to Python

[Carl Gay <address@hidden>]

This has already been covered pretty well in comp.lang.python, it seems.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=lisp+group:comp.lang.python.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=7xlmhddlr3.fsf%40ruckus.brouhaha.com&rnum=8


At 09:48 PM 8/16/2002 +0100, Jason Trenouth wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: <robmyers@mac.com>
>To: <info-dylan@ai.mit.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:20 PM
>Subject: Comparison of Lisp to Python
>
>
>> Interesting link:
>>
>> http://www.strout.net/python/pythonvslisp.html
>>
>> I don't agree with most of it, but as I say it's interesting. The point
>> about reader macros relates to the recent discussion of syntactical
>> regularity.
>
>Hmmm. Looks a bit clueless to me.
>
>Rating Common Lisp as less expressive than Python is a tell-tale sign. The
>author thinks CL exception handling is about catch-and-throw, and that CL
>data types only get as far as association lists. The comments are decades
>out of date even when written.
>
>The author also doesn't consider native compilation or true garbage garbage
>collection to be important criteria.
>
>Peter Norvig's comparison is more considered:
>
>http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html
>
>__Jason