[Edu-sig] Re: measuring python

[Kirby Urner]

At 12:19 PM 10/2/2001 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

>For a follow-up on the Karlsruhe studies at NASA, see
>
>   http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/gat/lisp-study.html
>
>Since people are slowly figuring out FP in Python, this may
>just give you an edge on C++ and Java and others.
>
>-- Matthias

Interesting to me that Lisp and Scheme would be lumped as
a single unit, that the authors saw no reason to differentiate
between them.

Were any statistical differences between the Lisp and
Scheme groups, either in terms of development, runtime or
memory size.  Seems the samples were kinda small (2 and
3 entries respectively).

Question: are the "fast, mature" compilers and IDEs used
in this study as freely available as javac and gcc.  I.e.
the trial version of Allegro CL can't be used freely except
for homework and learning purposes.  Could it be that the
"mystery" of LISP's not being widespread has something
to do with its affordability?

Kirby