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From: john@mintaka.mlb.semi.harris.com (John M. Blasik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: extension languages can be darn small, yet still powerfull
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Date: 9 Sep 90 23:20:52 GMT
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In article <BARNES.90Aug31185555@cds839.cadence.com> barnes@cadence.com (Tim Barnes) writes:
>
>It's also the case that there are a variety of "syntax packages"
>available for Lisp: for example Cadence's Skill(tm) allows the following
>semantically equivalent syntaxes:
>   x = 3*sin( y->z )
>   (setq x (times 3 (sin (getq y z))))
>

Too bad the designers brewed Skill(tm) with an overabunance of
syntatic sugar at the expense of the time honored hops and malt of lisp:

	(cons 1 2) 
*Error* cons: argument #2 should be a list (type template = "gl") - 2

-- john