yrk
quotes an article titled
Scheme vs. Common Lisp
at Philip Greenspun's site. Delicious!
Finally, Gerry Sussman said "Of course, you can't expect Lisp to do something like that; Lisp can't do things like this. If you want to deal with massive data sets, you have to use C. It is sad but true." I said, "Gerry, I think this would run on an old 1 MIPS 3600 with 8 Mbytes of RAM. I'd just rewrite this in Common Lisp. The code would be cleaner because of the generic functions for sequences and I'll throw out my private sort function and just use the one built into Common Lisp." Sussman said "If that is true then the whole Scheme project has been a waste and I'll shut it down."
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