Rocco Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Python, as a procedural language, makes extensive use of globals & > mutable variables.... IIUC, in Lisp, as a functional language, "all > politics is local." Global-like variables are much rarer, and > mutability is severely limited.
Some people write Lisp code in a functional style, but not everyone. Lisp provides mutable objects as much as Python does--maybe more, for example, Lisp strings are mutable. Overall I'd say there's not much difference between Lisp and Python in this regard. Lisp lets the programmer supply static type declarations that the compiler can use, but those are optional. When you use them, you get faster output code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
