Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robert Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does this make Lisp "less dynamic" than Python? Espen would say it's not > > less dynamic, but rather that a similar level of dynamism is achieved in > > Common Lisp via well defined interfaces. The compiler knows the interfaces, > > so it can do a better job optimizing the code. [thank you for clarifying my post, Robert] > I'd say Python is more dynamic in the sense that the Python runtime > system has to actually concern itself about the dynamism all the time > in practice, i.e. on every object method invocation. Ok, but when you state that language A is more dynamic than language B, most programmers would interpret that as (or so I guess) "A offers more dynamism to the programmer than B" - not that it burdens the run time system implementor with more dynamism... -- (espen) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
