"Ben Finney" <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote in message news:87bp3wf3zw.fsf at benfinney.id.au... > Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.com.pl> writes: >>> Heh. One day, guys, when you have nothing better to do, try writing a >> parser for Lisp-like language (Common Lisp, Scheme, whatever). After >> that, do the same with some other language of your preference (Python, >> Java, whatever). Compare time and code spent... >> Perhaps Lisp is a simpler language to parse than Python. >> Perhaps a machine with only one instruction > <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer> is > simpler to implement than one with a broader instruction set. One with zero instructions might be even simpler than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_instruction_set_computer -- Bartc