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pulse7 on Oct 1, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pd...

"because it's not a standard language" Every language was a "non-standard language" at it's beginning... Including C, C++ and Lisp...

TeMPOraL on Oct 1, 2020 [–]

What 'drmeister means is that CL as an actual standard, as in ANSI standard. Ditto for C++ (an ISO standard). This means the language has a clear target for implementations to conform to, one that isn't vulnerable to "moving fast and breaking things".

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