Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?

[Paddy3118]

This month there was/is a 1000+ long thread called:
"merits of Lisp vs Python"
In comp.lang.lisp.

If you followed even parts of the thread, AND previously
used only one of the languages AND (and this is the
crucial bit), were persuaded to have a more positive view
of the other language; (deep breath, this is a long, as
well as grammatically incorrect sentence), THEN WHY NOT
POST ON WHAT ARGUMENTS PERSUADED YOU.

OTHERWISE LET THIS POST WITHER AND DIE ALONE.

(I suspect this thread to be very short - even the
original poster seems to have given up on the day he
started the thread).

- Paddy.

[Ray]

Paddy3118 wrote:

This month there was/is a 1000+ long thread called:
"merits of Lisp vs Python"
In comp.lang.lisp.

<snip>

(I suspect this thread to be very short - even the
original poster seems to have given up on the day he
started the thread).

I use both. And Java, and C++ too. Can one really survive knowing just
one language these days, anyway?

>
- Paddy.

[Paul Hummer]

I am rather annoyed at the "apples vs. oranges" arguments I frequently
see on Reddit and the like. I picked up python last summer after going
through a very messy breakup (it seemed like a good thing to do with all
the alone time). Anyway, ever since I started writing python, I've been
bugged by a "apples vs. oranges" coworker to learn Lisp, because they
are very similar. So at the beginning of this thread, I was reminded
that I should go check it out.

That's all it did for me. It reminded me to do something I was planning
on doing myself anyway. Lisp vs. Python? How 'bout Haskell vs. Java,
PBASIC vs. C++, and while we're at it, SmallTalk vs. Assembler!

>This month there was/is a 1000+ long thread called:
"merits of Lisp vs Python"
In comp.lang.lisp.

<snip>

>>
I use both. And Java, and C++ too. Can one really survive knowing just
one language these days, anyway?

I agree with this entirely. I started learning PBASIC to work with a
microcontroller . I learned Java for portability. I learned PHP for
ease of web application development (I've been largely unimpressed with
the python frameworks...bu t it's also lack of experience). I use python
for utilities I need, and Lisp is great for some of the functional needs
I have (see Mosquito-Lisp and the MOSREF project), and I can see use in
it. But how many web applications have you seen written in Assembler?
How many OS kernels written in Lisp?

I bought my girlfriend an art desk for Christmas. I didn't use a
freakin' hammer to drive the screws. Wrong tool for the job. Each
language has its ups and downs. Call me the Martin Luther King of
programming languages, but I have a dream. We can no sooner say one
language is better than another than say white people are superior to
black people. We're equal in our own respects.

Paul

[Carl Banks]

Paddy3118 wrote:

This month there was/is a 1000+ long thread called:
"merits of Lisp vs Python"
In comp.lang.lisp.

If you followed even parts of the thread, AND previously
used only one of the languages AND (and this is the
crucial bit), were persuaded to have a more positive view
of the other language; (deep breath, this is a long, as
well as grammatically incorrect sentence), THEN WHY NOT
POST ON WHAT ARGUMENTS PERSUADED YOU.

OTHERWISE LET THIS POST WITHER AND DIE ALONE.

If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should
have done is to not cross-post this.
Carl Banks

[Paddy]

Carl Banks wrote:

If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should
have done is to not cross-post this.

I want to cover Pythonistas looking at Lisp and Lispers looking at
Python because of the thread. The cross posting is not as flame bait.

- Paddy.

[Aahz]

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Paddy <pa*******@nets cape.netwrote:

>Carl Banks wrote:

>>
If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should
have done is to not cross-post this.

I want to cover Pythonistas looking at Lisp and Lispers looking at
Python because of the thread. The cross posting is not as flame bait.

If a Lisper is looking at Python, zie will be reading c.l.py, no?
--
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[Kaz Kylheku]

Paddy wrote:

Carl Banks wrote:

If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should
have done is to not cross-post this.

I want to cover Pythonistas looking at Lisp and Lispers looking at

That's already covered in the orginal thread. Same two newsgroups, same
crowd of people. What's the difference?

Keep it in the original thread where uninterested people can continue
to ignore it.

Python because of the thread. The cross posting is not as flame bait.

You're re-starting the same thread under a new root article, thereby
evading kill filters set up on the original thread.

In halfway decent newsreaders, people can killfile by thread, whereby
all articles associated with the same ancestral root article are
removed.

It's very bad practice to re-introduce continuations of long flamebait
threads under different thread identities.

[Carl Banks]

Paddy wrote:

Carl Banks wrote:

If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should
have done is to not cross-post this.

I want to cover Pythonistas looking at Lisp and Lispers looking at
Python because of the thread. The cross posting is not as flame bait.

Then post a separate message to each group. If you expect everyone on
Usenet to obey your command to reply with only what you want them to
reply with, you're a sad naive fool.
Carl Banks

[Steven Haflich]

Ray wrote:

Can one really survive knowing just
one language these days, anyway?

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[Kaz Kylheku]

Steven Haflich wrote:

Ray wrote:

Can one really survive knowing just
one language these days, anyway?

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iie! chigaimas.

No, I beg to differ!

(Hey, I'm in right the middle of preparing my Kanji-drilling Lisp
program for distribution).