Lisp vs. C++ (not off-topic)

[Walter Bright]

I sent Brandon Corfman a link to your article, and here's his reply 
(posted with his permission):

> Thanks for sharing that article. It's a good discussion, although I'll  certainly need
 > more time to study the results in detail.
> 
> Here's another link to results in some other languages:
> http://www.nsl.com/papers/phone.htm
> 
> Since I can't enter the discussion, one thing I wanted to point out is that I posted my
> original C++ code verbatim as soon as I was finished. So although there are better ways
> to use the STL (as has been endlessly pointed out to me by other C++ advocates), the
> point wasn't to tweak the original program to make it more concise, as that would
> simply have eaten up more time. The point was to solve the program as quickly as I could
> and then measure the LOC afterwards.
> 
> I'm really impressed with the way Lionello wrote the code without looking at the other
> versions first. I've had plenty of others tell me that they translated existing programs
> into their pet language or wrote their own after studying the solutions. Most of them also
> won't tell how long it took them either ... especially the C++ guys ... heh.
> 
> Brandon