Re: [Vnc2swf-users] why vnc2swf is not in Lisp

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

Andy Leszczynski wrote:
>> I like the python choice.  In the last few months,
>> it has become my favorite language.
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> I have been coding for almost 20 years and seen millions lines of code mostly in C and C++ - languages I have been working with since almost the beginning. Now I am leading meduim (around 50K lines of code) Python project and can not look back.
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> I am also glad vnc2swf is in Python and knowing other languages I think it was best choice.
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> As I wrote, my question was not too serious :-), I more asked inspired by mega thread (over 600 posts) on c.l.p and c.l.l http://tinyurl.com/y7ffe4 about "merits Python vs Lisp".
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> The only thing which I do not like Python is its performance - this come out really bad here http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html whereas Lisp is doing extremely well (agreed complied, but still for dynamic language). This is the article which Yusuke translated and why I posted it here.
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Whew.  I thought you were some kinda whacko.