Lisp has a lot o strengths, and sbcl is a really impressive implementation (performance isn't as good as it could be on x86, but on a real computer it's superb). I do, however, have a slight prejudice against language bridges, since they tend to sap performance and end up with a nasty mess where language features don't quite line up. If you feel like dropping into SILC at some point, you should talk to Alex - he is working on a Lisp dialect that targets the Étoilé Objective-C runtime directly and treats primitive Lisp operations as message sends, allowing Lisp, Objective-C, Smalltalk and Io objects to use the same underlying representation.
By the way, I think this was the comparison you meant to post: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=sbcl&lang2=objc David On 29 May 2008, at 10:56, Кутейников Дмитрий wrote: > I saw you are pushing Objective-C, SmallTalk and Io as default > programming languages in Etoile environment. > I think Lisp ideology is very close to these languages: it is > powerful, flexible and has first-class object orientation support. > It is possible to use clean declarative programming in some tasks. > So it can really simplify GUI and plug-in development. > Lisp also has ObjC interface: http://matthias.benkard.de/objective-cl/ > Performance is very good: > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=sbcl&lang2=java > > What do you think about including it in Etoile? > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
