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vsbuffalo on Nov 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mathematica 9 Is Released Today

Lisp is too slow? I find this hard to believe. SBCL is incredibly fast, allows run-time compiling, and if you dig in the source, actually is partially written in assembly for speed. That's in part why Duncan Temple-Lang and Ross Ihaka suggested it as a base for a new R implementation a while back (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3726).

fusiongyro on Nov 29, 2012 [–]

Lisp isn't too slow, but it was too slow at one time. The old joke was "Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."

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