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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 18:39:27 GMT
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In article <aldersonCy8vEM.57E@netcom.com> alderson@netcom.com writes:
>In article <38icti$132@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
>(Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>
>>Can someone explain what the references to Lisp-2 are about?  I have seen some
>>of the old Lisp-2 documents, and don't see any interesting resemblance between
>>Common Lisp and Lisp-2.  Can it be a reference to the separate namespaces for
>>functions and variables, one of the things I like least about CL?  But in that
>>CL resembles Interlisp, and _doesn't_ resemble that other MIT product, Scheme.
>
>"LISP 2" is the old follow-on to LISP 1.5, which deservedly died off.

Guys, how about using less of each line so it's possible to quote 
from you messages w/o doing a lot of editing?  I've left it unedited
above.

Lisp 2 is interesting because it had a non-list-based syntax.
I think it may have had a list-based syntax as well, but it's
been over a decade since I read the Lisp 2 paper.  (It was in
one of the spring or fall "joint computer conferences".)

-- jeff
