> C has low-level bit operations, As an unrelated fun fact, Common Lisp has more low-level bit operations than C, such as "and complement of integer a with int

> C has low-level bit operations, As an unrelated fun fact, Common Lisp has more low-level bit operations than C, such as "and complement of integer a with integer b" or "exclusive nor": http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_logand.htm http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_loga... It also has logcount, which is the counterpart to the implementation-specific popcount() in C.