On 14-Jan-2003 Martin Cracauer wrote:
>> Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> some remaining low-level structs. Perhaps, this is possible with Gerd's
>> PCL changes...
>
> In my opinion - if the person you are teaching is so infected by the
> OO virus that he insists on using classes, inheritance and virtual
> functions (whatever you name it) for every problem he sees, then there
> is zero hope whatsoever that he can benefit from learning Lisp. The
> only thing you will do by trying this is create another person
> claiming "Lisp is slow".
Not, if he already tried to do similar things in Java, because there
you write lots of types and casts and can't get better performance than CLOS.
In most cases it is worse...
Martin
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