"Mark Tarver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > "Mark Tarver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do you compare Python to Lisp? What specific advantages do you > > > think that one has over the other? > > > > <http://google.com/search?q=python+lisp&btnI=I'm+feeling+lucky> > > Thanks; a quick read of your reference to Norvig's analysis > > http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html > > seems to show that Python is a cut down (no macros) version of Lisp > with a worse performance. The only substantial advantage I can see is > that GUI, and Web libraries are standard. This confirms my suspicion > that Lisp is losing out to newbies because of its > lack of standard support for the things many people want to do. > > Mark >
It is not just a newbie thing. Even people who are reasonably fluent in Lisp use Python for many tasks, and some make python the default with Lisp as a special case. It would probably be fair to say that the more you know about a variety of languages, the more you appreciate Python. -- Harry George PLM Engineering Architecture -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list