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Subject: Re: another take on "C is faster than lisp"
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In article <STEVE.94Aug30141513@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov>
           steve@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov "Steven Rezsutek" writes:

> chyde@labs-n.bbn.com writes:
> 
>    I fail to understand why it is that the implementation language even
>    needs to be mentioned.  we bid, we win, we implement, we support.  would
>    you go over to Computer City and ask what language Microsoft Word is
>    written in?  if they said ALGOL 60, would you buy something else
>    instead? (you'd probably be more amazed that the words ALGOL 60 even
>    came out of their mouth)
> 
> Funny you should mention this.  I recall that when I was doing s/w
> development for a PC oriented company, many of the ads for software in
> the magazines of the time had a loud proclamation of "Written in C!"
> somewhere in them.  _Somebody_ must have though it meant something.
> 
> [We used to use the phrase "Written in C", spoken in a mocking,
> sing-song tone of voice, as the equivalent of "Ooh, ahh. So what?" :-)]

I wonder if a comp.lang.lisp.advocacy (if it existed) would be a
better place for debates like this? I'm just a little tired of adding
threads like this one to my killfile.

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