Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2007-01-06 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So far? After a bit of pain getting started and finding decent docs >(while waiting for the books to arrive) I've found the language quite >easy to use. I haven't got into closures or macros yet - I need to get >more familiar with th

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2007-01-05 Thread Ant
Hi all, On Dec 28 2006, 4:51 pm, "Paddy3118" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This month there was/is a 1000+ long thread called: > "merits of Lisp vs Python" > In comp.lang.lisp. > > If you followed even parts of the thread, AND previously > used only one of the languages AND (and this is the > cruc

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2007-01-04 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Hummer wrote: > I learned PHP for ease of web application development ... PHP is great for easily developing _insecure_ web applications. But if you want them not to leak like a sieve, things get a bit more complicated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2007-01-04 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [3] I thought it was particularly cool how Tcl could bolt on a class > based object oriented system as a library. The word "class" isn't > built into the language, but that kind of evaluator lets you add it. I have written about two notr

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-29 Thread xscottg
Paddy3118 wrote: > This month there was/is a 1000+ long thread called: > "merits of Lisp vs Python" > In comp.lang.lisp. > > If you followed even parts of the thread, AND previously > used only one of the languages AND (and this is the > crucial bit), were persuaded to have a more positive view >

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-29 Thread Kaz Kylheku
Steven Haflich wrote: > Ray wrote: > > Can one really survive knowing just > > one language these days, anyway? > > いいえ! 違います。 iie! chigaimas. No, I beg to differ! (Hey, I'm in right the middle of preparing my Kanji-drilling Lisp program for distribution). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-29 Thread Steven Haflich
Ray wrote: > Can one really survive knowing just > one language these days, anyway? いいえ! 違います。 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-29 Thread Carl Banks
Paddy wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should > > have done is to not cross-post this. > > I want to cover Pythonistas looking at Lisp and Lispers looking at > Python because of the thread. The cross posting is not as flame bait. Then

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-29 Thread Kaz Kylheku
Paddy wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should > > have done is to not cross-post this. > > I want to cover Pythonistas looking at Lisp and Lispers looking at That's already covered in the orginal thread. Same two newsgroups, same crowd

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-29 Thread Aahz
[x-post removed] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Carl Banks wrote: >> >> If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should >> have done is to not cross-post this. > >I want to cover Pythonistas looking at Lisp and Lispers looking at >Python b

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-29 Thread Paddy
Carl Banks wrote: > If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should > have done is to not cross-post this. I want to cover Pythonistas looking at Lisp and Lispers looking at Python because of the thread. The cross posting is not as flame bait. - Paddy. -- http://mail.py

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-28 Thread Carl Banks
Paddy3118 wrote: > This month there was/is a 1000+ long thread called: > "merits of Lisp vs Python" > In comp.lang.lisp. > > If you followed even parts of the thread, AND previously > used only one of the languages AND (and this is the > crucial bit), were persuaded to have a more positive view >

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-28 Thread Paul Hummer
I am rather annoyed at the "apples vs. oranges" arguments I frequently see on Reddit and the like. I picked up python last summer after going through a very messy breakup (it seemed like a good thing to do with all the alone time). Anyway, ever since I started writing python, I've been bugged by

Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

2006-12-28 Thread Ray
Paddy3118 wrote: > This month there was/is a 1000+ long thread called: > "merits of Lisp vs Python" > In comp.lang.lisp. > (I suspect this thread to be very short - even the > original poster seems to have given up on the day he > started the thread). I use both. And Java, and C++ too. Can on