« prev · plain text · next » 2002 · Erik Naggum comp.lang.lisp archive search · random Subject: Re: Lisp advocacy misadventures From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 25 Oct 2002 22:56:26 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: < 3244575386963745@naggum.no > * Tim Daly, Jr. | I was talking with a friend of mine about Lisp. He said that people | write things in C because of speed. But this is incorrect. People use C because it /feels/ faster. Like, if you build a catapult strong enough that it can hurl a bathtub with someone crouching inside it from London to New York, it will feel /very/ fast both on take-off and landing, and probably durng the ride, too, while a comfortable seat in business class on a transatlantic airliner would probably take less time (except for getting to and from the actual plane, of course, what with all the "security"¹) but you w...