[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, since everyone ignored the FAQ, I guess I can too... > > Mark Tarver wrote: >> How do you compare Python to Lisp? What specific advantages do you >> think that one has over the other? > > (Common) Lisp is the only industrial strength language with both pure > compositionality and a real compiler. What Python has is stupid slogans > ("It fits your brain." "Only one way to do things.") and an infinite > community of flies that, for some inexplicable reason, believe these > stupid slogns. These flies are, however, quite useful because they > produce infinite numbers of random libraries, some of which end up > being useful. But consider: Tcl replaced Csh, Perl replaced Tcl, Python > is rapidly replacing Perl, and Ruby is simultaneously and even more > rapidly replacing Python. Each is closer to Lisp than the last; the > world is returning to Lisp and is dragging the flies with it. > Eventually the flies will descend upon Lisp itself and will bring with > them their infinite number of random libraries, and then things will be > where they should have been 20 years ago, but got sidetracked by Tcl > and other line noise.
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