[tbnl-devel] TBNL survey / re-org

[Bob Hutchison]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Robert Synnott wrote:

> On 9/12/06, Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:24:00 +0530, quasi <quasilists at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > We are using lisp software to connect to Abacus air reservation
>> > systems and processing of the data and for all the search logic.
>> > The good news is our inhouse software is more than 10x faster than
>> > the Java solution purchased from a large software house here and
>> > 100x more stable.
>>
>
> I'd just like to echo this, actually; I'm completely amazed at the
> speed of applications, especially non-db-backed applications, written
> in tbnl. It's a great library.

I agree. Edi sometimes likes to say he is more interested in  
correctness than speed, which is good, but I find this a bit amusing  
at the same time. The predominant feature of CL/TBNL when I was  
coming from Java was its shear speed -- I still remember clearly my  
complete disbelief and confusion almost. The stability side comes in  
later, in my case about a year later, when I realised that a webapp  
that I had written was still running happily with a bunch of regular  
users. Of course, I was also a bit startled that I had forgotten  
about the thing.

Nice work Edi.

Cheers,
Bob

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