Re:Why I chose Common Lisp over Python, Ruby, and Clojure
by swannodette on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @04:06PM
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Django/Python and Ruby/Rails present their own (sometimes very significant) opaque complexities. Being complex, they actually hide their deficiencies for a long time. Enough so that sometimes rolling your own thing is not a significant time sink in comparison.
This also alludes to the popularity of do-it-yourself microframeworks. If you're planning on using a microframework anyway, I'm not sure your argument really holds up. You can pretty much use whatever not-completely-marginal language you want and be just fine.
Honestly the only valid argument that I come up with is that you can't find enough programmers that know or are excited to know that language to join your team.
This also alludes to the popularity of do-it-yourself microframeworks. If you're planning on using a microframework anyway, I'm not sure your argument really holds up. You can pretty much use whatever not-completely-marginal language you want and be just fine.
Honestly the only valid argument that I come up with is that you can't find enough programmers that know or are excited to know that language to join your team.