I like Scheme, but I have this desire to be productive without reinventing the wheel or most of the automobile. If it's not in the core Python language, chances are it's a feature in one the almost infinite selection of third party modules. Or can be done in C and called from Python.
Maybe you should give Clojure a try, which is a pragmatic Lisp in my opinion. You don't have to reinvent the wheel most of the time since you have access to a vast array of Java libraries.
>Unfortunately Clojure is one of the few lisps without proper tail calls. (I love Clojure I just thought I should point this out in the context of the discussion).
Fortunately, thanks to Clojure being a Lisp, you can add it yourself:
Unfortunately Clojure is one of the few lisps without proper tail calls. (I love Clojure I just thought I should point this out in the context of the discussion).
