Re: Anyone persuaded by "merits of Lisp vs Python"?



On 2006-12-29, Paddy <paddy3118@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Carl Banks wrote:
If you were so keen on avoiding a flame war, the first thing you should
have done is to not cross-post this.

I want to cover Pythonistas looking at Lisp and Lispers looking at
Python because of the thread. The cross posting is not as flame bait.

Then post it separately to both groups rather than cross-posting.

Bruce
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