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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Hartmann Schaffer <h...@hartmann.schaffernet>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:10:06 -0400
Local: Tues 16 Aug 2005 07:10
Subject: Re: Very poor Lisp performance
Jon Harrop wrote: i doubt lisp or scheme will gain anything there: the language defined > ... > However, LOC overly penalises Lisp and Scheme, IMHO. Specifically, Lisp and > Scheme programs are virtually unreadable unless the parentheses are > staggered by spreading expressions over several lines and using an > automatic indenter. So if I were to put a Lisp implementation of the ray > tracer on my site then I'd either state that, or I'd give results using > some other measure of verbosity, like characters. words tend to be quite lengthy, and afaict that seems to encourage programmers to use pretty length identifiers for their own identifiers, so character count might penalize lisp even worse. otoh, the lengthy identifiers make lisp code quite easy to read and understand. token count probably would be better > ... hs You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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