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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: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 16:56:37 GMT
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In article <DAVIS.94Oct26095355@passy.ilog.fr> davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis) writes:
>
>In article <Cy8tty.6E2@rheged.dircon.co.uk> simon@rheged.dircon.co.uk (Simon Brooke) writes:
>
>   In article <38icti$132@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>,
>   Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> wrote:
>   >jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

But I did not write any of the quoted text.

>   >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.
>   >
>
>   I've sworn off writing anything in the least controversial for a
>   fortnight, but I thought I'd answer this point. LISP1 and LISP2 (with
>   the numbers normally subscripted, but that is hard to do in a
>   plain-text mail message) are terms which have been fairly widely used
>   (see papers by eg Gabriel) as shorthand to distinguish those LisPs
>   (e.g. PSL, Interlisp, Scheme, EuLisp) which have a single namespace
>   for code and data, and those (e.g. Common LISP) which have separate
>   function and value namespaces. 

-- jeff
