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From: sritacco@hpdml93.HP.COM (Steve Ritacco)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LeLisp vs Common Lisp
Message-ID: <430001@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 16:10:22 GMT
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> Le Lisp is a small, old Lisp, which I've seen only on a Macintosh.  There's
> no point in detailing the differences between it and Common Lisp; there's no
> similarity beyond their both being Lisps.

Le Lisp is not an "old Lisp" it was created at about the same time as
Common Lisp.  It was created to be a decendant of Mac (not Macintosh) Lisp
much as Common Lisp was (though Common Lisp is more a decendant of
Zeta Lisp).  One of Le Lisp's primary goals was a portable implementation.
Le Lisp runs on just about everything (VAX, Apollo, Sun, etc.).  It is
generally considered to be "small and nice" though I have no basis for
opinion.  If you are looking for some papers about it, try the proceedings
of the (I think 1984) ACM conf. on Lisp and Functional Programming.

Good Luck!