[Cryptography] Use Linux for its security
Henry Baker
hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Sat Oct 1 14:09:01 EDT 2016
At 10:17 AM 10/1/2016, Ron Garret wrote:
>>> (Surely you knew all this? Why are you of all people spreading FUD about Lisp???)
>>
>> My problem is that Common Lisp deserved a lot of the criticisms aimed at it -- particularly its (in)efficiency on "stock" (aka C-language-oriented) hardware.
>
>Yes. Deserved. Past-tense. SBCL has been competitive with C for a long, long time now. Again, surely you knew this?
Don't get me wrong. Common Lisp is my favorite language, and I use SBCL all the time.
But although I'm "ready for Lisp" and I'm "with Lisp" (I guess that means I'm pregnant???), I don't think that Common Lisp and I are always "stronger together". I can still see Lisp's obvious imperfections.
I'm trying to reduce Lisp to a McCarthy-like simplicity that retains its expressive power & composability, but can also be implemented efficiently on real (and cheap) hardware.
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