Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb: > Mathias Panzenboeck a écrit : >> 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, > > Python is a dynamic multi-paradigm language which is mostly OO but has > support for procedural and functional programming > >> List > > s/s/p/ > >> is a declarative, >> functional dynamic language -> those two languages have different scopes. > > Lisp is a multi-paradigm language which is mostly functional but has > support for procedural and OO programming. > > Both are highly dynamic. Neither are declarative.
Well, Lisp does support some declarative features in the ansi standard. Think about :before or :after methods. And with some days of work (has already been done, so most Lispers could use it as a lib) you can get many parts of Prolog. See http://bc.tech.coop/blog/040919.html André -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
