OFF-TOPIC:: Why Lisp is not my favorite programming language

[Jacek Generowicz]

michele.simionato at poste.it (Michele Simionato) writes:

> Stephen Horne <steve at ninereeds.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:<6in670lrldbjkuujle68a526293j57a7mn at 4ax.com>...
> 
> > LISP is normally interpreted - maybe always, <snip>
> 
> I think you will be crucified for that affirmation.

Yes, maybe crucifiction is a more appropriate reaction :-)

> Anyway, here is an interesting thread talking about Lisp
> optimizations:
> 
> http://groups.google.it/groups?hl=it&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=95aa1afa.0402262158.5b33de79%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dit%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dsimionato%2Bfeature%2Brequest%26btnG%3DCerca%2Bcon%2BGoogle%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dcomp.lang.python.*

Eh, methinks you posted the wrong link.

Did you mean to point to this thread containing this post:

http://www.google.ch/groups?as_umsgid=ad2vzxoq.fsf%40ccs.neu.edu

?

[Summary: Troll comes to c.l.l claiming that Lisp is slow. Challenges
Lispniks to try to beat C++ on speed on a program that was designed to
test speed of C++ compilers. Lispniks beat C++ for speed in both
Common Lisp and Scheme.]