You don't say how long it took to develop the "macros" but you should see what kind of website an experienced Zope/Plone programmer can whip up in a few minutes.
Acceleration in programming has always been about the "Standard Library" (not only Python's standard library but also your standard library). I'm talking about stable, debugged, documented macros, functions and classes that the programmer can use to quickly do very complex tasks. I discovered this well over 30 years ago and taught many young programmers and University students this very important "trick". As you write software you will eventually come across common routines that are used in almost every software package (logging, reading from CSV files, date/time manipulation, ...). If you have lots of these to choose from in your library, you will produce code 10-100 times faster than those that start over every time AND the code will be MANY times more reliable because you are utilizing stable code that has been debugged over a long period of time. You will also be producing code that is more "maintainable". Discovered a bug in a library routine? Fix it and then it is fixed in 100's (or 1000's) of existing programs that use it. -Larry Bates [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? > > thanks! > > Chris > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
