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There was a discussion here about how Ruby is an acceptable Lisp: http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-acceptable-lisp/ http://www.randomhacks.

There was a discussion here about how Ruby is an acceptable Lisp: http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-acceptable-lisp/ http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-accepta... Ruby blocks cover a lot of what Lisp macros do. I don't know much Python and JS, but I'm guessing those don't have something similar to blocks/macros.

lispm 9y ago
> Ruby blocks cover a lot of what Lisp macros do That's a misconception. Ruby blocks are mostly unrelated to macro usage.
gkya 9y ago
Python's syntax is incredibly rigid. I'll only write in Python if I don't have no choice, or I'm paid decent money. I do like the ecosystem of the language tho, it has everything you'd like to write small utility scripts without reinventing the wheel. But Perl has them too, and I like the programmer-first nature of the language, so I use it for my scripting these days. I miss the pleasant debugging and incremental programme building of Elisp and CL in it, but I guess it's not impossible to have sth. similar in Perl, some sort of inferior-perl mode.