Tagore Smith writes: > I think it would be harder to hire people to work on his system (of course > you'd probably also get more experienced people, so that might not be such a > bad thing).
This raises the $64 question: If you could hire 10 PHP programmers at $50/hour or 4 Perl programmers at $125/hour, which team would deliver more business value over the life of the site? > Graham's system uses macros extensively, and from other code of his > that I've read (Graham wrote a couple of books about Lisp), I'd bet > that he uses recursion and mapping functions a lot as well. His On Lisp book is a classic on macros--which are similar to closures in Perl. You can download it for free: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html My guess is that Graham's answer to the above question would be: Hire two Lisp programmers at $250/hour. :-) Rob
