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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Lisp waves continue!
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Date: 28 Jan 91 12:51:42 GMT
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In article <8497@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600dt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Dave Goggin) writes:
>I have done lisp myself, and I would say that is ti
>by no means 'dead'  In fact, it is one of the best
>languages that i have ever used.  And, being an
>inperpreted anguage, it is pretty amazing what a
>good interpreter can do in terms of speed.  

Bear in mind that Lisp isn't always interpreted; often it's compiled.
Indeed, some Lisps (e.g. PopLog Common Lisp) don't have an interpreter
at all.  Code is always compiled (even when EVAl is called).  But for
this to work well, the compiler must be fairly fast.

N.B. There is a similar confusion about Basic.