[Jscheme-user] Re: nice comparison of Lisp and Python

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

Yes.  Its very nice.  It would be very nice if we could add a Ruby comparison to it.  Jython is a nice addition to Java applications because it compiles to bytecode with just the JRE (no development environment required).

It may be that the main remaining advantage of Lisp is the ability to define new domain specific languages.  This may seem like an advanced feature, but the idea is to start with Scheme and build the language you want your application written in.  Lisp applications can have 6+ such langauges easily.

src/using/run.scm is an example.  It provides a shell scripting language in 3 macros, and about 400 lines of code and documentation.

At 12:43 AM 3/23/2003 -0500, Geoffrey Knauth wrote:
>http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html