To be honest, my experience with Lisp is limited. The view I had of Lisp being slow was due to
  1. Working with a platform that was implemented in Lisp by pg that was slow and memory intensive compared to other languages.
  2. A discussion between Paul Graham and Trevor Blackwell where they benchmarked some simple and common operations using C, Perl and Lisp.

(I'm trying to dig it up now.) If I remember correctly, ANSI Clisp had to perform around 400+ operations to print a single character. Don't quote me on that though. I'll try and find the doc.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Re:(4:)Specific Examples? - Re: A Macro System for Perl? by shotgunefx
in thread A Macro System for Perl? by samtregar

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