Lisp vs. Java article

[Mike Clarkson]

On 10 Sep 2001 06:07:37 -0700, henrik_ekelund at yahoo.com (Henrik
Ekelund) wrote:

><dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.999982630.7193.python-list at python.org>...
>> Slashdot has a link to this interesting study that pushes Lisp as an
>> alternative to using Java:
>> 
>> http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/gat/lisp-study.html
>> 
>> Although not related to Python, there's enough parallels to Python vs
>> Java/C++/etc to make it useful for those discussions with management on
>> why they need to get over their misconceptions and not be afraid of using
>> Python in production.
>> 
>> -Dave
>
>Probably the argument about shorter development time holds for Python
>as well as Lisp. But to be honest the argument about execution speed
>does not hold. Lisp has real compilers, Python is bytecode
>interpreted.

And the Lisp language  has a way of optionally declaring types in Lisp
code, so that the compilers can do the maximal type inferencing.

Mike.