Come on, indulge us. Why do people say Lisp is slow?
Staging Area for the Common Lisp FAQSome people associate Lisp with the old hardware it used to run on (the PDP-10 was a popular platform, I hear) Lisp is interactive, which a lot of people take to mean that Lisp is (always) interpreted. Early lisps (and others, like CLisp) are interpreted, although most modern lisps are compiled.
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Staging Area for the Common Lisp FAQAnswer 2: Some free Common Lisp implementations have native-code compilers that are about half as fast as C. This translates to 2-4 times the speed of Java and 50-80 times the speed of Perl, Python, or Ruby. Refer to http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html for details.
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Staging Area for the Common Lisp FAQIt might. The AI bust happened 20 years ago, and conditions in the semiconductor and IT industries are very different now. Most importantly, the continued action of Moore's Law has caused developer time to replace computing power as the limiting resource in both hardware and software design. In addition, mass-marketing of hardware and software products and the rise of server-based applications have all made rapid development a top priority in both hardware and software.
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Frequently Asked QuestionsThey won't unless you choose to tell them. Other naturists are, of course, fully understanding and would want to protect your enjoyment of naturism rather than jeopardise it. People are usually interested in the subject, and naturism is something to be proud of. Naturists cover the complete range - singles, partners, married couples... Our club is family orientated, and often you will see parents with children or with their grandparents.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Toy, Tiny, and Teacup Poodl...The reason some people say there is no such thing as a teacup is because the term “teacup” is not a registered breed. It is only a term that breeders use to identify the tiniest size. All “teacups” are registered as “toys.” Why some people get bent out of shape over this is a mystery. It is not a big deal, and everyone who sells teacups knows they are registered as toys.
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Frequently Asked Questions for comp.lang.lispScheme is a member of the greater family of Lisp languages, assuming that is considered to include others like Dylan and Emacs Lisp. The design of Scheme predates the ANSI Common Lisp standard, and some CL features such as lexical scoping may be considered to have been derived from Scheme. More detailed comparative discussions don't generally prove very productive; those that are interested in discussing Scheme should first consider discussing it in comp.lang.
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Lisp FAQThe root cause is probably that it looks hard, but it would help if there were a dialect with extensive libraries.
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Frequently Asked (sort of) QuestionsRealistically? I doubt it. I've married since I first wrote this, and my wife has told me, in no uncertain terms, that those days are coming to an end. She has a young'un, and doesn't want to place him in jeopardy. And I fear pissing her off far more than any would-be Billy-Bob Bad-Ass. Her temper is even more nuclear than mine. (grin) Yes. And she has no problem with it. She knows how I cherish her, and she can see the difference between her sweetie and Lord Spatula I, King & Tyrant.
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How were you able to put up those billboards in Hollywood? What did people say about them?
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ION LIFE for VitaKlenz AntiParasite Package Dealsquot;Within one week of starting treatment with Vitaklenz my energy level had increased dramatically and the swelling/pain in my joints had disappeared. After 2 weeks dead tapeworms were visible in the toilet. After 4 weeks of treatment my level of parasite infection was NIL. One week later the reading is 5%, so obviously there are still eggs hatching, but I am sure that another months' treatment will solve this problem.
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Basic QuestionsThe philosopher John Searle says that the idea of a non-biological machine being intelligent is incoherent. He proposes the Chinese room argument www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/chinese.html The philosopher Hubert Dreyfus says that AI is impossible. The computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum says the idea is obscene, anti-human and immoral. Various people have said that since artificial intelligence hasn't reached human level by now, it must be impossible.
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Democracy in the Park -- We Put the Grass in GrassrootsDemocracy in the Park provides full scripts as well as lists of people to call. We make different types of calls at different times; recently, we have been asking voters which issues are most important to them and which candidate they are supporting, so that we can follow up and make sure the right people get to the polls in November.
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Comic ReliefHere at Comic Relief we'll do everything we can to answer any questions you may have (as long as they don't begin "Have you heard the one about.") and we have tried to cover as many of them as we can in this Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page. Please have a read to see if the information that you're after is here. If it isn't, have a good search around the rest of the site because there's stuff here on absolutely everything we do.
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FAQSRemember when you first took you new computer out of the box and everything worked so well and was so fast? And now, months or years later, all these nagging errors, pop-ups, and lockups keep happening. And everything is so slooooooowwwwwww……
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FAQExploitedmoms.com is optimized for all types of connections. It would be a good idea to know where you qualify in terms of streaming speeds. Click on the following link in order to get a speed test http://www.bandwidthplace.com. Broadband is qualified for any speeds over 127k. 56k/ISDN is anything between and 126k-41k . 28k/56k is anything below 40k .
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FileFormat.Info Website FAQSeriously, it isn't running on some mega-box or anything. There is just one server and the total hardware cost is less than $600, so anything that requires processing is just not going to be that fast. The upstream link also limited to 384Kbps (current as of Feb 2005). Any large downloads will definitely run into this limit.
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GNU Emacs FAQThe Emacs Lisp List (ELL), maintained by Stephen Eglen, aims to provide one compact list with links to all of the current Emacs Lisp files on the Internet. The ELL can be browsed over the web, or from Emacs with the ell package. Many authors post their packages to the Emacs sources newsgroup. You can search the archives of this group with Google, or Gmane, for example. For a long time, the Emacs Lisp Archive provided a central repository for Emacs packages.
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Staging Area for the Common Lisp FAQIn some other language that shall stay nameless, you can initially write: int foo (int bar) { return bar + 42 ; } and later come back revisiting it because now you need an extra boolean argument.
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Why do some people say that male and female genital cutting shouldn't be discussed together?
Frequently Asked Questions about NOHARMM & CircumcisionIn reality, these issues are two sides of the same coin. Many African and Western opponents of FGC privately agree that MGC should also be eradicated. The political situation of women in Africa, however, makes it difficult for them to even speak out against FGC. They indicate that their struggle would be hampered by also publicly opposing genital mutilation of male children.
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Thiaoouba - Frequently Asked QuestionsFake alarms: there is no invasion. There can't be. Earth is extremely close to a global catastrophe, and therefore is a very unlikely destination for anyone intelligent. Scare tactics are used just to exercise control over people, because fear completely blocks logical reasoning.
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Frequently Asked Questions for comp.lang.lispA lightweight common lisp interpreter and compiler, which compiles to bytecode, and runs on Windows, AmigaOS, Acorns, OS/2 and most flavours of Unix. CLISP's implementation of CLOS is currently not quite complete. CLISP is licensed under the GNU GPL. CMUCL interpreter and optimizing compiler to native code running on a few flavours of Unix (including x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux and sparc/Solaris). CMUCL can be difficult to compile; it requires itself to build itself, and bootstrapping is an issue.
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Frequently Asked Questions for comp.lang.lispFranz Inc's Allegro Common Lisp is a fine lisp development environment. See their website for more detailsLCL Another offering from Xanalys, LispWorks has a different set of extensions above the ANSI specification from LCLMCL A commercial natively multithreaded implementation of Common Lisp for various Unixes.Symbolics Common Lisp
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Frequently Asked Questions for comp.lang.lispA non-normative transferral of the official ANSI standard for Common Lisp to the hypertext medium, by Kent Pitman.Association of Lisp Users
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