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		trapper on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible ... I refer you to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1016762 What's wrong with that as evidence for lisps superiority?

jules on Dec 27, 2009 [–]

What's wrong is that they measured the performance of Lisp programmers vs Java/C++ programmers. This is fine but you're not comparing the merits of the programming language. The Lisp programmers would win even if they were forced to program in Java.

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