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Re:Is Lisp a Blub Language? on Monday April 26, 2010 @08:56AM (#1294739)
>Clearly this is a very different philosophy than the one behind Lisp.

Depends on which lisp you mean. There are many dialects of lisp and each have their own philosophies and ideals. Scheme, for example, is a minimalist lisp whose philosophy is probably not too different from python - although python has a far bigger standard library (but that is a separate issue).

Re:Is Lisp a Blub Language? on Monday April 26, 2010 @08:05AM (#1294640)
Your example is a feature of the Python philosophy (or community) not the Python language.