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Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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In article <BUFF.94Nov3152246@pravda.world>
           buff@pravda.world "Richard Billington" writes:

> The other one that sticks in my mind was the guy who gave up using a
> Symbolics after he spent an hour trying to figure out "how to link to
> the math package". Of course, this is not just restricted to lispm's,
> but new users to lisp in general can't believe how easy it is to do
> many things which C requires all kinds of incantations for.

That's sounds a little like the story of the programmer who couldn't
understand Smalltalk until he'd printed out all the methods in the
system! What's that saying about nails and hammers?
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