Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

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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