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merits of Lisp vs Python

Paul Rubin http
Mon Dec 11 20:06:39 EST 2006 
jayessay <nospam at foo.com> writes:
> > If you say foo.frob() in Python, that's supposed to look up 'frob' in
> > a dictionary hanging off of foo.  You can modify the contents of this
> > dictionary any time you want.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something this looks absolutely dead easy to
> implement in Lisp and with a very little macrology you would have the
> syntax as well.  I'm not sure how this makes one or the other "more
> dynamic".

I'm talking about the way Lisp is actually used, not what contortions
one can do with macros.  The way one does OOP in Lisp is with CLOS.
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