Even in the best of times, the night wind blowing in from the San Francisco Bay can get a bit cold at times, and my workstation no longer warms the blood as it used to. What I really need is a good flame raging cheerfully at me from the screen. With this in mind, have y'all seen Howard Trickey's article, "C++ Versus Lisp: A Case Study" in SIGPLAN Notices 23, 2 (Feb. 1988), pp. 9-18? P. Hilfinger