Rob Thorpe wrote: > Mathias Panzenboeck wrote: >> 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, > > Yes, but Python also supports the functional style to some extent. >
I currently visit a course about functional programming at the university of technology vienna: python implements only a small subset of things needed to be called a functional language (list comprehension). but yes, for a imperativ oop language python is very close to functional. >> List is a declarative, >> functional dynamic language > > Lisp is only a functional language in that it support both functional > and imperative programming styles. Duck typing is almost identical to > latent typing in Lisp. > And, Common Lisp at least is object orientated. > >> -> those two languages have different scopes. > > Their scope is actually very similar. Learn about lisp and you will > soon discover their similarity. > ic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
