>/prog/ raves about how great and powerful LISP is >download sbcl >make a simple hello world app (defun main () (print "Hello World") (quit)) >compile it to binary >50MB file for 3 lines of code
$ cat hello.scm (display "Hello World") (newline) $ chicken hello.scm compiling `hello.scm' ... generating `hello.c' ... $ ls -hs hello.c 8.0K hello.c $ wc hello.c 240 649 7882 hello.c $ gcc -c hello.c $ gcc -O3 -o hello hello.o -lchicken $ hello Hello World $ ls -sh hello 16K hello $