Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Graham talks about 25% of the Viaweb code base being macros. Imagine how > productive his coders would have been if the language was not quite > so minimalistic, so that they could do what they wanted without the > _lack_ of syntax getting in the way.
Paul Graham's Viaweb code was written in Common Lisp, which is the least minimalistic dialect of Lisp that I know. Even though they were using this powerful tool, they still found it useful to create new syntactic abstractions. How much less productive would they have been had they not had this opportunity? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
