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From: davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
In-Reply-To: vogt@netcom.com's message of Fri, 21 Oct 1994 23:32:31 GMT
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Date: 24 Oct 1994 10:23:49 GMT


In article <vogtCy1qq7.517@netcom.com> vogt@netcom.com (Christopher J. Vogt) writes:

   I disagree that standardizing Lisp will inhibit it's usefulness for exploring 
   new ideas.  In terms of syntactic issues, Lisp macros make it easy
   to continue to explore, and present readily portable new ideas.  I think
   the bigger risk is that no standard is forthcoming, and the language dies
   due to lack of portability.  If all you want to do is research hacking it's
   fine to do without standardization, but if you want to develop and deliver
   applications it is an entirely different matter.

Actually, an ISO ISLisp standard is forthcoming.  There is currently a
Committee Draft for ISO ISLisp (CD 13816 ISlisp), and work is
proceeding steadily toward a real international standard for Lisp.
It's slow because of all the politics, but it is progressing.  And
there will be commercial implementations.  (Indeed, Ilog Talk is
nearly there already and we will be 100% when the standard arrives.)

You can perhaps find out more by writing to the committee convenor,
Christian Queinnec (Christian.Queinnec@inria.fr).

-- Harley Davis
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