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From: Kandt.pasa@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: re: lisp productivity question
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Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 12:49:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 12:49:00 1983
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Jonathan Slocum (University of Texas at Austin) has a large natural
language translation program (thousands of lines of Interlisp) that was
originally in Fortran.  The compression that he got was 16.7:1.  Also, I
once wrote a primitive production rule system in both Pascal and
Maclisp.  The Pascal version was over 2000 lines of code and the Lisp
version was about 200 or so.  The Pascal version also was not as
powerful as the Lisp version because of Pascal's strong data typing and
dynamic allocation scheme.

-- Kirk