"Mark Tarver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks; a quick read of your reference to Norvig's analysis > > http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html > > seems to show that Python is a cut down (no macros) version of Lisp > with a worse performance. The only substantial advantage I can see is > that GUI, and Web libraries are standard. This confirms my suspicion > that Lisp is losing out to newbies because of its > lack of standard support for the things many people want to do.
There is (IMO) some truth to that, but the flavor of Python programming is not that much like Lisp any more. Especially with recent Python releases (postdating that Norvig article) using iterator and generator objects (basically delayed evaluation streams) more heavily, Python is getting harder to describe in Lisp terms. It's moving more in the direction of Haskell. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
