<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Well, his Viaweb company was founded in about '95, right? So he probably just > > used Lisp because Python wasn't as well known yet. ;-) > > David > > That is what I thought too. It makes sense but I wasn't sure. Still > ain't. > The problem is that questions like 'What lang is fastest to develop > in?' > are hard to answer definitively.
No it's not. The answer is always whatever language you enjoy the most and know the best. That's a somewhat redundant statement because if you enjoy a language, you are highly motivated to use it often and learn it well. An intimate knowledge of any particular language is *far* more important than the syntactic and semantic arcana that people usually argue over. So - what the question really boils down to is which language(s) have the best balance of approachability (easy to learn!) and capability. Bear in mind though, that if the language sacrifices capability in favor of being easy, then the fun runs out of it too soon :-) Thomas Bartkus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
