Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> writes: > Heh. One day, guys, when you have nothing better to do, try writing a > parser for Lisp-like language (Common Lisp, Scheme, whatever). After > that, do the same with some other language of your preference (Python, > Java, whatever). Compare time and code spent...
Perhaps Lisp is a simpler language to parse than Python. Perhaps a machine with only one instruction <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer> is simpler to implement than one with a broader instruction set. So what? -- \ “Shepherds … look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece | `\ them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the | _o__) priesthood as I know it.” —Christopher Hitchens, 2008-10-29 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
