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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Why do I like C? (was Parallelism (superior(?) programming languages)
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Steve Barnard <steve@megafauna.com> writes:

>I really like Lisp, too.  It is far more pleasant to use Lisp than C,
>but you'd have to be a fool to use Lisp for performance-oriented
>supercomputer codes, unless there have been some developments in the
>last few years that I'm unaware of.

See

http://www.cons.org/cracauer/lisp-c-fp-bench/

for floating point code that is not slower than C (even faster on some
platform/compiler combinations). This is at least the case if you use
CMU Common Lisp (http://www.cons.org/cmucl/). CMUCL has been around
for some years now.

I wrote many programs were I found C (no ++) to be a pleasure to use,
BTW.

Martin
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