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From: gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Q Design Goals
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Date: 27 Feb 90 23:54:10 GMT
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In article <1970@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
<...
<CL is a clumsy
<language, not suited to producing efficient code.
<...

"Clumsy" is a clumsy word to use here :^). Not everybody wants or
needs ultra-optimized code. CL, and other dialects of Lisp like Scheme,
are NOT clumsy in too many other ways for me to do justice to here.

John
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