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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp
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In article <SCHWARTZ.94Sep13183351@roke.cse.psu.edu> schwartz@roke.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>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.

I'd say it's neither.