Indeed, I thought it was always much faster:<p><a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&#38;lang=python3&#38;lang2=sbcl" rel="nofollow">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...</a><p>One of the guys behind R is also looking at moving to a LISP base after considering python:<p><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/v38u176xp7j562m3/" rel="nofollow">http://www.springerlink.com/content/v38u176xp7j562m3/</a><p>That said, I will stick with python as I am not a programmer by profession and can't deal with a plethora of languages when I have a good swiss army knife as it is.