[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?
Well, his Viaweb company was founded in about '95, right? So he probably just used Lisp because Python wasn't as well known yet. ;-) IMO one of Python's strengths over Lisp is that it plays well with many other technologies. It should be remembered that Graham's use of Lisp in Viaweb was in building a web application, so that Lisp's main links to the "outside world" were the filesystem and Apache. They didn't use a database, and Apache had to be modified in order to work with Lisp. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
