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Erann Gat  
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 More options Apr 10 2003, 4:58 pm
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From: g...@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:54:25 -0700
Local: Thurs, Apr 10 2003 4:54 pm
Subject: Re: Pitfalls? - Changing Lisp to C (enlightened<g>)
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In article <100420031102028746%nos...@iam.invalid>, Mark Conrad

<nos...@iam.invalid> wrote:
> FWIW, the title of this thread no longer applies, because I have been
> 're-educated' to know that what I really want is to convert a CL
> program to machine code.

Then you're in luck.  There are tools that do this for you.  They are
called Lisp compilers.

> It certainly is rough being a CL newbie.

Hang in there.

> Anyone care to venture a guess as to how long it might take me to get
> my CL smarts, assuming I hit the books hard and have somewhat average
> intelligence?

I've been programming in Lisp for over twenty years and I still learn new
things about CL on a pretty regular basis.

On the other hand, learning enough Lisp to allow me to run circles around
C programmers took me about a week (in 1981).

E.

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The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily
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