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Subject: Re: Read/write binary files in Scheme? In Scsh?
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:23:08 GMT

Quoth dmb@connectnet.com (David Brumley):
> Common Lisp because I thought it was bloated and antiquated, I'm giving it
> a second look since it provides what I consider essential functionality

Not apropos to this group any longer, but maybe that's why CL is
bloated: it has the ability to do lots of good things without
reference to an external (and thus potentially nonportable) library?
I'd like to see a CL variant become popular that does away with the
antiquated stuff (prog?), has more orthogonality (needs defining, but
includes partial collapsing of existing forms), or defines subsets,
but to me there is an advantage to its size, nevertheless.  (Not that
there aren't things CL can't do.)

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