Re: Paul Graham's Arc is released today... what is the long term impact?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Damien Kick wrote:

Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:

[...] I still end up writing the macro version instead
only because "(when a b)" is faster to read
than "(when a #'(lambda () b))".

Really? Faster to read. If you sat down with a stop watch and actually
timed yourself, how long do you think it would take you to read either
form.

Its faster to read because its less messy, not because the time
looking at each token takes very much time. Guess I should
have written faster to understand instead of faster to read,
altough it should be obvious.

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