On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:29:45 +0100, John Thingstad wrote: >> Maybe so. But I've only ever appreciated its functional aspects. I >> wouldn't choose Lisp or its derivatives for OO related tasks even if >> I'm high. >> > > You are just being silly. > Lisp's OO environment CLOS is vastly superior to Python classes. > Both in terms of expressive power and flexibility.
Oh, well, with evidence like that, I'm convinced! > Python is fine if you approach programming as Lego, simply gluing > together libraries. > But if you want to do some serious algorithmic's you may find that it is > just to slow. Nobody ever said that Python was idea for serious number crunching (although see numpy -- use the right tool for the job). If I knew what sort of "serious algorithmics" you meant, I could comment. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
