Simple made easy

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Rich Hickey's presentation which received a standing ovation from Dr. Sussman.

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http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php

And I hope you do not believe the assertion that speed is everything - speed AND memory consumption, i.e. total efficiency, is more important. I wish that site would publish efficiency metrics, but I did my own analysis on their data and C/C++ comes out 1st place in 9/14 of their benchmarks.

>>124
It's closest to how a computer actually works without being assembly language.