Re: Why stay with lisp when there are python and perl?

On May 2, 6:20 pm, fli...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Python has readable syntax, a huge library, and bindings for what
seems like every major in linux. Perl has CPAN. It seems with those
languages if you want to do something all you have to do is import
functionality from a library someone had written and use that.

In lisp you'd have to "roll your own".
No you wouldn't. Lisp has a metric shipload of libraries. You can find
them at www.cliki.net.

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