[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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