Indeed, I thought it was always much faster: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python3&lang2=sbcl http://shootout.alioth.debian

Indeed, I thought it was always much faster: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python3&lang2=sbcl http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... One of the guys behind R is also looking at moving to a LISP base after considering python: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v38u176xp7j562m3/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/v38u176xp7j562m3/ That said, I will stick with python as I am not a programmer by profession and can't deal with a plethora of languages when I have a good swiss army knife as it is.