Re: Prototyping

Do you think you're going to be able to sit down and write a very
difficult and complex project with heavy optimization needs in a
language you've never used, and is quite different from anything you've
ever used before, and not end up, at the very least, throwing out big
chunks of it and starting over? The point is that you're prototyping
whether you like it or not. If you don't admit it, you just end up
wasting more time optimizing the parts that you're going to throw out.
Saying you don't have the resources doesn't help. Besides, the Lisp
way of doing things is to rapidly write slow code, and then go back and
speed it up when and where necessary.

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