> If you look at the shootout, Python and Ruby are comfortably ahead of Lisp in the expressiveness stakes. The code in the 'shootout' is verbose, to make it fa

> If you look at the shootout, Python and Ruby are comfortably ahead of Lisp in the expressiveness stakes. The code in the 'shootout' is verbose, to make it fast. Much faster than Ruby or Python. Generally small code in Ruby and Python can be more compact. For larger code this is then no longer the case, once the macro-advantage kicks in...