Re: [Chicken-hackers] Any thoughts on performance woes?

[John Cowan]

Felix Winkelmann scripsit:

> That there are so many implementors in the Lisp and Scheme community
> probably makes this irrational emphasis on (execution-time)
> performance so apparent in these groups. Or it's the remains of the
> trauma of the AI-Winter, I don't know (and I don't care anymore.)

I believe it's older than that.  There was a steady drumbeat of 
"Lisp is too slow to be usable" practically from the 1950s onward,
and you can still find it in certain ignorant quarters.  As a result,
the Lisp/Scheme community acts like the traumatized victim of a bully.
There are certain other language communities that do the same things
or the same reasons.

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