Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

* Jon Harrop <45810c0d$0$8728$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
| If these things are done well in Lisp then that's great. There is still the
| problem that the userbase will be tiny, e.g. there are probably far more
| people using ML, Haskell or Mathematica pattern matchers than any given
| Lisp pattern matcher.

Why should this be a problem? Unless youre delivering advertisments to
the users or selling to them as a market..

To quote Pascal Bourguignon in <871wn6wi5i.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
who also thinks this is a `problem'

Well there are two problems with lisp.
^^^^^^

1- lisp code works. So once a library is developed, there's no much
traffic, because there's no bug.
[...]

--
Madhu
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