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, List is a declarative, functional dynamic language -> those two languages have different scopes. For more Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_programming_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
