On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 09:16:08PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >>>> But development is faster with Python [...] > >>> > >>> Is it? > >> > >> Yes. > > > > Development is fastest using whatever language you know > > best. This is not an objective argument. > > Put it this way, a novice Python programmer can do more in > Python than the novice Lisp programmer can do in Lisp, or, if > you will, the same in less time.
I've seen people cutting off part of a door with a bread knife. If you measure a tool by what a novice can achieve with it, then, well, that's some metrics. "When someone says 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,' give him a lollipop." [1] -- Alan Perlis Cheers [1] https://users.monash.edu/~lloyd/tildeMisc/1982/Perlis-Epigrams.html -- t
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