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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details)
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 05:12:48 EST
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That seems like some pretty dumb code to put in Lisp.  Iteration, setq --
yech!  I don't think any person in their right mind would disagree that
Fortran-like or Algol-like languages are far better suited to this style of
programming than Lisp.

Now, let's see you write a recursive linked-list program in Fortran, which
doesn't have stack-based calling, pointers, or anything remotely like
structured data types....
-=-
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