Re: novice: mapcan use?

Kenny Tilton wrote:

coming from. We often get newbies posting code here saying, Whoa, this is slow. We find that an innocent looking bit of recursive code is

The couple newbies who find there way into the Lisp world usually have quite some programming experience (including optimization, debugging, etc.) in other languages, are known to like experimenting with different languages and programming concepts (otherwise, how would they have found out about Lisp?) and normally are not so incompetent as to not know when to do optimization, and how to use profiling tools, when available. In fact, when they come to Usenet or mailing lists and ask about how to make things faster, is that not a good indicator that they're trying to find out about these things and learn about them?

mkb.
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