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Comment author: Broolucks 24 March 2013 06:36:14AM 5 points [-]

A huge amount of progress has been made in compilers, in terms of designing languages that implement powerful features in reasonable amounts of computing time; just try taking any modern Python or Ruby or C++ program and porting it to Altair BASIC

The "powerful features" of Python and Ruby are only barely catching up to Lisp, and as far as I know Lisp is still faster than both of them.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 25 March 2013 12:37:59AM 4 points [-]

Except then you have to program in Lisp.

Comment author: Baughn 25 March 2013 04:03:23PM *  1 point [-]

A fate worse than death.

Actually, SLIME is still the best debugger and IDE I'm aware of. Honorable mention to OSD, but that'd involve working in Java.

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