September 09, 2004
Scheme vs. Common Lisp

Here's an old but sort of funny story about optimization, language design and language implementation: Scheme vs. Common Lisp. [via lispmeister.]

It took me 20 minutes to convert the code, which ended up being about one third as many lines.

Philip Greenspun has some other MIT AI Lab reminiscing too.

Posted by jjwiseman at September 09, 2004 10:32 AM
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