On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:20:20PM -0800, Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
There are plenty of fascinating fields that require performance including AI, games, scientific applications and simulations. 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.
Lisp is a slow language? A lot of problems are done in lisp because it's not slow. A lot of things in Lisp that are slow algorithmically can be rewritten, still in lips, to be faster. Some problems even run faster in Lisp than in a language like C. Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
