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In article <see ref> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>I can't afford to use Lisp either: I don't find its slight advantages in
>expressiveness to outweigh its slowness for all but the simplest
>programs.

Lisp or Scheme's advantages in expressiveness are not slight at all, but
still, it is amusing to see you acknowledge the expressiveness of those
languages you do not know much about _exceed_ those languages that you do
know something about.

Also, do you really understand what "expressiveness" mean? 

>In contrast, the supposed conciseness of dynamically typed languages
>costs dearly in compile time, run time, and (for projects with many
>debugging runs) programming time.

Dan, you have no idea what you are talking about.

oz