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floateron Matchure: Serious Clojure Pattern Matching

Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293600.

>Clearly this is a very different philosophy than the one behind Lisp.

Depends on which lisp you mean. There are many dialects of lisp and each have their own philosophies and ideals. Scheme, for example, is a minimalist lisp whose philosophy is probably not too different from python - although python has a far bigger standard library (but that is a separate issue).

floateron Is Lisp a Blub Language?

Your example is a feature of the Python philosophy (or community) not the Python language.

floateron Hackurls.com: One Day Python Project (source included at the end of the page)

It's the icon at the bottom: http://www.hackurls.com/hackurls.py