Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 15:51:42 -0700 From: strick@yak.net I am not new to LISP or PERL or AWK or POSTSCRIPT or FORTH or SHELL or BASIC or HYPERTALK or various other interpreted langauges. Lisp is no more or less of an `interpreted language' (a misnomer IMO) than C. Interpreters exist for both languages. Compilers exist for both languages. You can use either without running any interpreted code . . . or without running any compiled code. A good lisp coder with a good lisp compiler can typically outperform a good C coder with a good C compiler for most tasks -- although it's a lot easier to become a reasonable C coder and to find a reasonable C compiler than to become a reasonable lisp coder and find a reasonable lisp compiler. I'd venture a guess that there's a *lot* more pretty-reasonably-performing C/C++ code out there than lisp code. Just my attempt to start another thread that's almost completely unrelated to crypto :-) Rick -- ``C'' combines the power of assembly language ... with the flexibility of assembly language. -- Anonymous