[net.ai] Programming fast in Lisp

dickey@ssc-vax.UUCP (Frederick J Dickey) (03/06/85)

I occasionally hear claims that an experienced Lisp programmer on a good
Lisp environment can program x times faster than a programmer using a
conventional language such as Pascal, where x varies between 5 and 10.
Is anybody aware of any studies that substantiate this claim?

- Fred Dickey 

dickey@ssc-vax.UUCP (Frederick J Dickey) (03/06/85)

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I occasionally hear claims that an experienced Lisp programmer on a good
Lisp environment can program x times faster than a programmer using a
conventional language such as Pascal, where x varies between 5 and 10.
Is anybody aware of any studies that substantiate this claim?

- Fred Dickey