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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: What language would you use?
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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 19:15:16 GMT
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In article <39irtb$3t4@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
>     (define fact 
> 	(lambda (arg) 
> 	    (cond 
> 		( (< arg 2) 		1) 
> 		  (else 		(* arg (fact (- arg 1))))
> 	    )
> 	)
>     )

Good! Someone writing lisp-I-mean-scheme code so ordinary humans can read
it! If everyone coded like this there would be a lot less complaints about
the syntax.
-- 
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