"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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....
Well, for me, I was playing around with lisp and developing in python for my little scripts until I finally hit something that could leverage a lisp macro to create a new type of iterator. After that things moved foward at a rapid speed. Another point in lisp's favor is that I prefer nested s-expressions to the sometimes ugly mashup of functional and OO calls that I end up creating in python. On the other hand, python benefits from a much richer standard library, so some of the things you take for granted in python such as string.split(None,3) need to be found or created. > thanks! > > Chris > -- Kirk Job-Sluder "The square-jawed homunculi of Tommy Hilfinger ads make every day an existential holocaust." --Scary Go Round -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list