merits of Lisp vs Python

[Rob Warnock]

Pillsy <pillsbury at gmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| hankhero wrote:
| > Pythons advantages are:
| > Faster startup-time which makes it a good scripting language.
| 
| ... but on my machine, SBCL starts up and runs a "Hello World"
| program a bit faster than Python, and CLisp really blows its doors off.
+---------------

On my various machines, CMUCL startup is *slightly*
faster than CLISP, but both are under 20 ms...

I use Common Lisp for scripting a *lot*!


-Rob

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