In other words, the reason why many programmers don't like lisp is * OMG I forgot a closing parenthesis, where is it * my parentheses keys have worn off * can't time with sub-millisecond accuracy * uncaught exceptions
;-) On Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:41:30 AM UTC+1, rjf wrote: > > I would tell you how much faster (fib 25) is in lisp but I got a > division by 0. > It seems to be 0.000000 seconds. > > (defun fib(n) > (if (< n 2) > n > (+ (fib (- n 1))(fib(- n 2))) > > > The reason people compare speed is that it is quantitatively easy. > > However, people value expressiveness in a programming language. > > Otherwise we would all be programming in assembler. > > > RJF > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
