"Ravi Teja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Tarver wrote: >> >> seems to show that Python is a cut down (no macros) version of Lisp >> with a worse performance. > > By that standard, every other mainstream dynamically typed language > for you is a cut-down version of Lisp with worse performance.
Pretty much;-) Fewer features, worse performance. Why use 'em? In my case, because the standard library is larger, and because I can get my teammates to use 'em. -- Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl> When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. --Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
