Subject: Re: Common Lisp and Python performance
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 29 Dec 2000 05:33:26 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <92h7n6$i4692$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Daniel Barlow  <dan@telent.net> wrote:
+---------------
| "As a comp.lang.lisp discussion grows longer, the probability of a
| comparison involving C++ approaches one." There is a tradition in
| that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever next posts to
| it has to refer to Greenspun's Law"
+---------------

Actually, Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming
<URL:http://philip.greenspun.com/research/>

Though I've never ever heard anyone mention One through Nine...


-Rob

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