Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > You can > use the slow languages (Python, Ruby, LISP, Smalltalk) to a certain > degree until you start pushing parts out to C, using them only for > glue, or simply waiting a long time to get your results. > So, I'll let the slings and arrows for this hit Python and Ruby, but I take offense to them being applied to LISP and Smalltalk. Cincom Smalltalk is pretty darn zippy, and as for LISP... you have to be kidding me. When CMU CL was presented to the world more than a decade (sheesh, is it *two* decades now?) ago, it at the time was highly competitive with Fortran for performance. Other LISPs have moved forward such that CMU CL is no longer considered to be a speed demon.
Which just goes to prove: languages aren't slow/fast, implementations are. --Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
