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merits of Lisp vs Python

Ken Tilton kentilton at gmail.com
Mon Dec 11 23:25:25 EST 2006 
greg wrote:
> JShrager at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> So if you guys would just fix
>> your language by adding homogeneous syntax and all that it brings with
>> it (macros, compilers, etc) we'd be happy to use your version of Lisp,
>> and all its great libraries, instead of ours! :-)
> 
> 
> But if we did that, it wouldn't be Python any
> more, it'd be Lisp. 

And someone would then have to invent Python.

Let Python be Python, let Lisp be Lisp. It's all good.

ken

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