Expressive programming language? Was: [Gllug] Speaker Suggestion

[Tethys]

Mamading Ceesay writes:

>A old comparison (circa 1999) of Python and Lisp which
>includes a look at expressiveness can be found at
>http://www.strout.net/python/pythonvslisp.html

Yes, it has some valid points, but is blatantly biased. To give
Lisp anything less than full marks for extensibility is just
ludicrous. Just look at how CLOS added object orientation without
any changes to the language whatsoever.

If the question is which is easiest to solve a problem without getting
bogged down in the language, then it's hard to argue against Python.
Unless you have a geek/mathematician mindset, at which point, Lisp
starts to make sense :-) To the rest of the population, it resembles
structured line noise...

Tet
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