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From: dickey@ssc-vax.UUCP (Frederick J Dickey)
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Subject: Programming fast in Lisp
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 15:11:05 EST
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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