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From: schwartz@roke.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp
Date: 13 Sep 1994 22:33:51 GMT
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jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
   There was a Prolog a while back that did better than C for some
   numeric stuff.  Did this win wupporters?  Nooooooooooo... 

It's a necessary but not sufficient condition.  Sather and C are both in
the algol vein; crossover is easy.  Prolog is utterly different than C;
performance is almost the least of one's worries.