Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.daimi.aau.dk!lynbech From: lynbech@xenon.daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp Date: 15 Sep 1994 20:36:04 GMT Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. of Aarhus Univ. Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: xenon.daimi.aau.dk In-reply-to: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk's message of Thu, 15 Sep 1994 16:14:46 GMT Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:52 comp.lang.lisp:13299 >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Dalton writes: Jeff> In article Jeff> 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. Jeff> I'd say it's neither. Are we about to open the `C vs. Lisp' thread again, with BETA on the side? (for those puzzled: this has been a raging debate for the last couple of months in comp.lang.lisp) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christian Lynbech | Hit the philistines three times over the office: R0.33 (phone: 3217) | head with the Elisp reference manual. email: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk | - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------