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

Wed Apr 7 06:05:33 EDT 2004

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. 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.*

The gist is "Lisp can be faster than C/C++".

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