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Steve Dekorte  
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 More options Oct 22 1997, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
From: Steve Dekorte <deko...@slip.net>
Date: 1997/10/22
Subject: Re: Can I do it with ObjC ?

Marco Scheurer <ma...@sente.ch.mil> wrote:
> >Or Scheme, of course it would run about 5x or more times slower
> >than Lua or Smalltalk.
> Maybe, maybe not. This is the kind of arguments we (still) sometime
> see in C++ vs Objective C (or vs Smalltalk) threads, and if you push
> the argument further, you'll have to use C or assembly. I would still
> choose LISP if it cuts on development time (giving me time to optimize
> where needed).

Development time compared to what? Smalltalk?

> [N64 game using LISP example]

If you compare Scheme and Lua for the things you'd want in a game
console scripting language, I think Lua will come out ahead.
It's more smaller, portable, uses less memory, and is faster.

--
Steve Dekorte - OpenStep consultant - San Francisco


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