Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Adkins
Ken Tilton wrote: > John Nagle wrote: >> Brian Adkins wrote: >>> John Nagle wrote: >>> If you want to restart a debate, please go back and reply to some >>> serious post in the thread - don't hijack mine for your own evil >>> purposes and c

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Adkins
John Nagle wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: >> Brian Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> With prices of dedicated servers and virtual private servers so cheap, >>> why would anyone get a hosting account without root access? >> >> Because it turns

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Adkins
Paul Rubin wrote: > Brian Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> With prices of dedicated servers and virtual private servers so cheap, >> why would anyone get a hosting account without root access? > > Because it turns you into a sysadmin instead of letting specialist

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Adkins
John Nagle wrote: > Brian Adkins wrote: >> alex23 wrote: >> >>> John Nagle wrote: >>> >>>> Hosting providers and distro >>>> makers aren't concerned over whether Python works. They >>>> care if C, C++, Java, PHP, and Per

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Adkins
alex23 wrote: > John Nagle wrote: >> Hosting providers and distro >> makers aren't concerned over whether Python works. They >> care if C, C++, Java, PHP, and Perl work, but not Python or LISP. >> Ask them. > > Do you have any real experience with recent linux distros? Or with any > _real_ hostin

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Adkins
John Nagle wrote: >Neither Lisp nor Python is an "industrial strength language". > The infrastructure is too weak. Hosting providers and distro > makers aren't concerned over whether Python works. They > care if C, C++, Java, PHP, and Perl work, but not Python or LISP. > Ask them. > >

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Adkins
George Sakkis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 1. Lisp is the only industrial strength language > ^^^ > You keep using that phrase. I don't think it means what you think it > means. [Vizzini has just cut the rope The Dread Pirate Roberts is climbing up]