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One of the handier features of modern functional languages like Erlang and OCaml is the use of unification to match arity against function definitions. The ability to define a function in terms of the type and number of arguments passed is both expressive and useful.

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The template module was inspired largely by the Django template system. I firmly believe that separating complex logic from the template itself leads to both cleaner code and, much more importantly, a simpler system for non-programmers. A content producer should not be required to know lisp to write a simple template.

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Together, these two modules form a coherent replacement for the newLISP CGI module. They can be found here.

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Psyco is a module that optimizes Python applications on the fly. Numerous resources online describe how to use psyco in a Django-powered application to speed it up.

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Django comes with an easy-to-use caching framework. With a few simple decorators, an application’s views are cached. Decorators can even be used to control upstream caches, such as those maintained by ISPs. Nevertheless, if a rendered view is customized with information individual to a user, these caching options cease to be useful. [...]

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