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Tom Breton  
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From: Tom Breton <t...@world.std.com>
Date: 2000/03/28
Subject: Re: can lisp do what perl does easily?
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p...@acm.org (Pierre R. Mai) writes:

> Tom Breton <t...@world.std.com> writes:

> > WRT speed, it depends completely on which implementation you're using,
> > but that said, it's easier to get a fast, slim Perl than a fast, slim
> > Lisp IMO.

> Is it?  I'd gamble that both CLISP and ECL/ECLS are probably both
> faster and slimmer than a current 5.00x Perl.  

I've used both CLISP and Perl 5.00{4,5}, and it didn't seem that way
to me.  Granted, I used them for very different projects, so Perl may
have had an advantage.  The Perl system was much easier to find and
install.  RedHat bundled it, so I basically just pushed a button.
CLISP has rpms too but they were so nonstandard I ended up just
building it from source.

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Tom Breton, http://world.std.com/~tob
Not using "gh" since 1997. http://world.std.com/~tob/ugh-free.html
Rethink some Lisp features, http://world.std.com/~tob/rethink-lisp/index.html


 
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