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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
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Subject: Re: what is lisp, instead?
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Date: 17 Aug 90 02:36:01 GMT
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In article <1990Aug16.103617@avahi.inria.fr> colas@avahi.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes:
>PS: gwm is an emacs-like WIndow Manager for X: it has a built-in lisp
>interpreter for customization, fast and small, and totally C-compatible,
>written in C. (and ~ 3 times faster than xlisp and emacs lisp).

I don't think that's a fair comparison though, since WOOL isn't a "real
lisp" (oops ... what is lisp anyways?). At last check -- WOOL used arrays
as lists, didn't seem to have a dynarray facility to dynamically expand
array-based lists, and couldn't handle circular lists. In my opinion, the
listiness of a lisp defines it's lispness.

Lists are one of the things I like about lisp...  I bet forth is more than
3 * faster than xlisp and emacs-lisp...
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