Tom M. Makucevich wrote:
> 
> jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > It may be a myth but it is often true.  When working on the physical
> > modelling opcodes I was often struck by how much additional code and
> > space was used in the C++ version compared to the C version.  Give me
> > C over C++ every time.  OK, BCPL was better and true LISP best of all.
> I follow you up to BCPL but which flavor of LISP do you mean when you say
> "true"? And in what way is it best of all? Efficiency? I didn't think that
> was the case. However LISP *is* more expressive than the others. Is this
> what you mean?
It is now time to move this thread to
"comp.flame.other.prorgrammers.for.their.choice.of.language" or
"alt.ich.bin.ein.uber.geek.du.bist.ein.slob"

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Joel Dinolt
jdinolt@pacbell.net
It's more fun to compute.