Lisp development with macros faster than Python development?..

[seberino at spawar.navy.mil]

I've been reading the beloved Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters".
He claims he developed a web app at light speed using Lisp and lots
of macros.

It got me curious if Lisp
is inherently faster to develop complex apps in.  It would seem if you
could create your own language in Lisp using macros that that would be
quite an advantage....

I realize that Python has operator overloading and OOP so I'm not sure.

Any ideas?  Any *evidence* one way or another?

thanks!

Chris