Re:Lisp Quickstart
by aidenn0 on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:41PM
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Some languages are absolutely more efficient for certain tasks.
Here are some probably not very contentions examples:
If you pick Brainfuck for your language it will probably take you longer to write your program than Java.
You will probably be able to write a network server in Go faster than you will be able to write it in assembly.
Those may seem contrived, but if you start to compare things that could be actual business decisions it becomes much harder for everybody to remain objective.
You also get to the point for which there may be no universal answer for each programmer. This is at least partly because many programming tasks are quite mundane, and so wouldn't be any faster/slower in general between, for example, Javascript and Lisp. You give them to me and I'll do it much faster in Lisp, while a javscript developer will do it much faster in javascript just because the task is simple enough that individual proficiency with the tools trumps any minor differences for such tasks.
Here are some probably not very contentions examples:
If you pick Brainfuck for your language it will probably take you longer to write your program than Java.
You will probably be able to write a network server in Go faster than you will be able to write it in assembly.
Those may seem contrived, but if you start to compare things that could be actual business decisions it becomes much harder for everybody to remain objective.
You also get to the point for which there may be no universal answer for each programmer. This is at least partly because many programming tasks are quite mundane, and so wouldn't be any faster/slower in general between, for example, Javascript and Lisp. You give them to me and I'll do it much faster in Lisp, while a javscript developer will do it much faster in javascript just because the task is simple enough that individual proficiency with the tools trumps any minor differences for such tasks.