On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Rob Nagler wrote: > 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. :-) > Or better, 1 CLP(CT) programmer at $500/hour...
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