Re: OT: Languages and type systems (was RE: Settlers ...)

[Adrián Pérez <copylight@...>]

El 29/11/2004, a las 3:12, Johann Hibschman escribió:

> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:46:33 +0100, Adrián Pérez 
> <copylight@iespana.es> wrote:
> > Yeah, "dynamicity" started with Lisp a long, long time ago...
> > (but Lisp is not compiled to machine code).
>
> Now you've done it.  You've angered the Secret Lisp Masters.  As a
> long-time lisp junkie and medium-long Common Lisp fan, I have to tell
> you that all commercial Common Lisps are compiled to rather efficient
> machine code.
>
> [...]

I did _not_ say that Lisp is inefficient, I just said that it _is_ 
dynamic. I know that both worlds can live together (think about 
Objective-C). In fact some functional languages can be *even faster* 
than C (side note: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ is great).

-ap

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