If it's C or C++, it's crap!

We don't live in the 1980s anymore. If you want to get things done, forget about languages like C and C++. C is too basic to get anything done quickly, and C++ is too complex to remember.

Python, Perl, Lisp, Haskell, Prolog, et al, are superior. Leave C and C++ to the vidya gaem programmers. They don't know shit anyway.

>>7
I don't even have to tell you why you must go back to /g/, Reddit, or wherever you came from. No BBCode for you either.

>>8
Yes, no one is denying that SBCL's performance might cover most of the use cases and that you wouldn't notice much if an application was written in it (save for the size of the executables, perhaps). Same with ghc.

But the thing is that you might need that extra efficiency from C, even if it is space-efficiency, but to further my initial point, that code which competes with C implementations somewhat evenly takes much more effort to write than its counterpart. Otherwise take a look at the language shootouts (when the site comes back up...) and see whether the SBCL programs look like something that came out of SICP or the like.