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Zak
on May 21, 2008
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How to Make Common Lisp go Faster Than C
Many of the interesting macros I've seen use list operations heavily to slice and dice their arguments and body code. Most experienced Lispers use macros quite a bit.
Hexstream
on May 21, 2008
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Given that macros take lists as input and output lists, it would be surprising if they didn't use list operations heavily...
Zak
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Yes, I didn't intend for my comment to be news to anybody who uses Lisp. I just wanted to point out why list processing is still important.
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