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From: jeff@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: ISO/IEC CD 13816 -- ISLisp
Message-ID: <DIyu6C.B5v@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Keywords: islisp, iso lisp, common lisp
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <19951126T160911Z@naggum.no> <49furk$op7@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 15:39:28 GMT
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haible@ilog.fr (Bruno Haible) writes:

>> on item 5, I get a feeling
>> this language is the victim of yet another silly "industry vs academia"
>> war, and that it is yet another propaganda move.

>Not at all. On the contrary, industry and universities have closely
>cooperated to produce the ISLisp standard draft: Japanese universities
>took part as well as french companies, the university-based Eulisp
>project as well as german companies.

Why do you say EuLisp was university-based?  There was a fair
amount of commercial representation, especially from France and
Germany.

>> - no concept of fixnums

>Common Lisp doesn't have a "concept" of fixnums either: There is no
>class FIXNUM. Anyway, implementation details like the storage of an integer
>don't need to be specified in a high-level language like Lisp.

There is a fixnum _type_ in Common Lisp.

"Implementation details" often do need to be specified if you
want sufficiently efficient code.

-- jd
