From: Bob Hutchison Date: 2006-05-26T21:17:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance On May 25, 2006, at 6:21 PM, Douglas Livingstone wrote: > I guess the first thing to try and work out, is, which Lisp? I don't > know them well enough to tell them apart, so my pick would be GNU > CLisp which I happen to have lying around anyway. Good choice? Yes, it is a good choice I think. CLisp is very fast at 'compiling' new code so development is quick, but it does not have great execution speed characteristics (so any benchmarks you do in CLisp will be easily blown away by other implementations). Unless you get into some dark corners of CL you can easily move to a faster lisp later. The CLisp community is big and helpful (not to say the others aren't). Development environment might be a bit of a shock, you are going to be moving right into the middle of the emacs world -- so you are looking at emacs and SLIME as your best option (if you are already using vi/vim then you can get along but you'll not have SLIME (there's a project underway to get SLIME and vim working together)). Cheers, Bob ---- Bob Hutchison -- blogs at Recursive Design Inc. -- Raconteur -- xampl for Ruby --