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In article <joswig-ya023180002102970350550001@news.lavielle.com>,
joswig@lavielle.com (Rainer Joswig) wrote:

> Even Microsoft did mockup versions of Word in Macintosh Common Lisp.

Is this true??  Do you have any references to papers or interviews where
this is discussed??

It's hard to imagine a Lisp version of 'Word' running slower or taking more
memory than the 'real thing'.....

Perhaps they should have kept the mockup, and thrown away the rest...
