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From: Tim Pierce <twpierce+usenet@mail.bsd.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Which one, Lisp or Scheme?
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In article <3063960348777794@naggum.no>, Erik Naggum  <erik@naggum.no> wrote:

>* Steve Austin
>| I'm very much a newcomer to Common Lisp, and I naively assumed that the
>| originators of Scheme used a common namespace to simplify the syntax of
>| higher order functions.  What advantages do separate namespaces provide?
>
>as others have observed, there are (at least) two schools of thought here.
>
>however, I'd like to approach this issue from a natural language point of
>view, instead of a formal language point of view.

You and Larry Wall should get together sometime.

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