[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been reading the beloved Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters". > He claims he developed a web app at light speed using Lisp and lots > of macros. > > It got me curious if Lisp > is inherently faster to develop complex apps in. It would seem if you > could create your own language in Lisp using macros that that would be > quite an advantage.... > > I realize that Python has operator overloading and OOP so I'm not sure. > > Any ideas? Any *evidence* one way or another? If that means that I have to learn a new programming language for every program I'd like to apply a minor fix/customization to: not a good idea. Probably not just for the casual hacker like me, but also for the maintainance phase of a project, when the former lead gurus lost interest and/or employment.
-- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
