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JoachimSchipper on Nov 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Only fast languages are interesting

Why not? Apparently lush gets it right: C-like speed on numerics with a Lisp-ish syntax this guy likes. Yes, C-style stacks are going to beat Lisp-style closures; but there is no reason why a "fancy" language can't do fast matrix operations, which is 99.9% of numerical code anyway.

Even Scheme has (rather un-Lisp-ish) vectors in addition to the standard linked lists.

nemoniac on Nov 30, 2011 | [–]

> C-style stacks are going to beat Lisp-style closures

It has been a long time since the "λ the ultimate..." series of papers gave the lie to this myth.

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