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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!ma2s2!haible
  2. From: haible@ma2s2.uucp (Bruno Haible)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  4. Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
  5. Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:59:39 GMT
  6. Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  7. Lines: 13
  8. Sender: <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
  9. Message-ID: <1jq59rINN54h@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
  10. References: <1993Jan21.230642.18561@netlabs.com> <19930122162651.0.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
  12. Summary: use Lisp for scientific programs
  13. Keywords: numerics, Lisp, Maclisp, Fortran
  14.  
  15. SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com (Scott McKay) writes:
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  17. > And why not use Fortran for some scientific hacking?
  18.  
  19. What was wrong with Maclisp's numeric code? What is wrong with Lisp compilers
  20. that have unboxed representations for floating point numbers?
  21.  
  22. Aren't the bignums and bigfloats Fortran lacks never useful for scientific
  23. computations?
  24.  
  25. Bruno Haible
  26. haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
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