[jefe78]

Interesting explanation.

Would you recommend Lisp to a C/Python developer who is focused on system applications?

[pnathan]

For what purpose? What do you mean by system applications?

Certainly I would evaluate it as a reasonable language for anywhere where Python is used.....

[jefe78]

One application I spend a lot of time working on/modifying is my crawler. It uses Python's Beautiful Soup.

Other applications I use/work on are my master control application. It is written in C and handles configuration sharing between systems.

[pnathan]

Depending on complexity and future plans, Common Lisp might be a good choice to create the controller in.

I don't think I'd want to try to reimplement Beautiful Soup without a really good reason! :)