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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by gruseom on Monday September 15, 2008 @03:24PM (#304970)
Sure, among other things (like "it's too slow").
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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by abstractbill on Monday September 15, 2008 @03:58PM (#305009)
That view is remarkably well entrenched. On the last team I worked in, before coming to JTV, we were talking about the big Java project we were working on. I said if I had my way it would have been written in Common Lisp. Many on the team thought that was hilarious. One guy's response was "yeah, maybe if we had a supercomputer!"
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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by silentbicycle on Monday September 15, 2008 @05:28PM (#305091)
For what its worth, that's probably a pretty good sign that they don't really understand what makes languages slow. (Or that they in "cheap shot" mode.)
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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by kxt on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @04:41AM (#305578)
Weird, as I was browsing the language shootout, I got the impression that SBCL produces damn fast code, in most cases comparable to the code emited by GCC or Java 6.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=...

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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by gruseom on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @11:12AM (#305829)
Yeah, that's the point. It's damn fast now. The "too slow" meme is from decades ago.
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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by igouy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @12:12AM (#307868)
Notice that you're looking at SBCL 0.9.16

Notice that there are more up-to-date measurements available from the homepage

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

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