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So, you think it's a legacy of the AI winter?

• gruseom 18y ago
  Sure, among other things (like "it's too slow").
  • abstractbill 18y ago
    That view is remarkably well entrenched. On the last team I worked in, before coming to JTV, we were talking about the big Java project we were working on. I said if I had my way it would have been written in Common Lisp. Many on the team thought that was hilarious. One guy's response was "yeah, maybe if we had a supercomputer!"
    • silentbicycle 18y ago
      For what its worth, that's probably a pretty good sign that they don't really understand what makes languages slow. (Or that they in "cheap shot" mode.)
  • kxt 18y ago
    Weird, as I was browsing the language shootout, I got the impression that SBCL produces damn fast code, in most cases comparable to the code emited by GCC or Java 6. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=sbcl&lang2=java http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=...
    • gruseom 18y ago
      Yeah, that's the point. It's damn fast now. The "too slow" meme is from decades ago.
    • igouy 18y ago
      Notice that you're looking at SBCL 0.9.16 Notice that there are more up-to-date measurements available from the homepage http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/