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merits of Lisp vs Python

Rob Warnock rpw3 at rpw3.org
Wed Dec 13 05:54:55 EST 2006 
Robert Uhl  <eadmund42 at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
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| "JShrager at gmail.com" <JShrager at gmail.com> writes:
| > I have the code here (probably not the latest bcs I left the company
| > when it was acquired), let's do a little experiment, for what it's
| > worth: 89727 lines of Lisp code in 131 modules (lisp code files), 3306
| > "(defun" (by grep|wc), and 261 "(defmacro". [We did NOT use macros as
| > functions!] [Note that lines of code doesn't really matter in Lisp.]
| 
| Wow--my emacs install has 1,152,598 lines of code in 1,570 files,
| 29,244 defuns and 1,393 defmacros.
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Wow, indeed! The entire CMUCL-19c distribution is "only" 592081 lines
of source code in 1192 files, with 10699 DEFUNs and 1839 DEFMACROs.
I didn't realize CMUCL was so "small" compared to Emacs.  ;-}

[Of course, that doesn't include the number of DEFUNs & DEFMACROs
which are defined *by* macros, or the total of 2809 DEFINE-VOPs
in the various flavors of the compiler...]


-Rob

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