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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp
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In article <LYNBECH.94Sep15223604@xenon.daimi.aau.dk> lynbech@xenon.daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech) writes:
>>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk> writes:
>
>Jeff> In article <SCHWARTZ.94Sep13183351@roke.cse.psu.edu>
>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?

There hasn't *been* a real Lisp vs C thread.  There's been a
Lisp-is-too-slow thread in which C has often featured as something
sufficiently fast.