I will be looking into it for the future.
It still misses Lisp's ultimate strength, imo, which is the ability to transform the language at will prior to compilation via macro's (i.e. you have the full power of the language/compiler to use as a preprocessor, to add new control constructs, etc), but I know Python has a lot more support and a much larger userbase and far more game oriented libraries available to it.
I suppose one other advantage to Lisp is it's greater execution speed (especially optimized Lisp code). Of course, for the game projects I'm planning - outside of my souped up graphical MUD, that really shouldn't be necessary. Same thing with macro's - they are nice but outside of AI programming or other exotic domains it's not necessary by any means.
How does Ruby compare to Python, in your opinion FlameDuck? I know Ruby has a lot of Lisp'esque qualities but have never given it more than a cursory glance.
It still misses Lisp's ultimate strength, imo, which is the ability to transform the language at will prior to compilation via macro's (i.e. you have the full power of the language/compiler to use as a preprocessor, to add new control constructs, etc), but I know Python has a lot more support and a much larger userbase and far more game oriented libraries available to it.
I suppose one other advantage to Lisp is it's greater execution speed (especially optimized Lisp code). Of course, for the game projects I'm planning - outside of my souped up graphical MUD, that really shouldn't be necessary. Same thing with macro's - they are nice but outside of AI programming or other exotic domains it's not necessary by any means.
How does Ruby compare to Python, in your opinion FlameDuck? I know Ruby has a lot of Lisp'esque qualities but have never given it more than a cursory glance.