From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: A lisp challenge. References: <3c98e020.496958609@nntp.interaccess.com> <3c97357a.518808875@nntp.interaccess.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3225509250523936@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:47:18 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1016520438 193.71.199.50 (Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:47:18 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:47:18 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:29520 * Thaddeus L Olczyk | If it was C++ I could write it in about two hours, but I couldn't write | it in Lisp both efficiently and stingy on memory. That's the point. This | problem has all the elements that styme me. So instead of worrying about | being productive, I keep worrying about how to be more efficient. How far along your learning path are you? Please remember that efficiency is encountered very early on the C++ learning path, and very late on the Common Lisp learning path. If you think "by now, I should have learned how to be efficient", you are effectively still walking on the C++ learning path. How come that path is the correct one? Would you have worried so much about efficiency if you had not known C++ before Common Lisp? /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.