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From: rpk@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Robert Krajewski)
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Subject: Re: Virtues of Lisp syntax
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Date: 6 Sep 90 17:48:50 GMT
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In article <LOU.90Sep6100024@atanasoff.rutgers.edu> lou@cs.rutgers.edu writes:
>...But if this display is in internal syntax, then there
>is little point in having the external syntax - the cost of dealing
>with two syntaxes generally (in my experience and I think in that of
>others) is very high, and outweighs any advantage of a nice external
>syntax.

This is exactly why nobody uses the ``original'' McCarthy Lisp syntax
anymore.  People threw it out 25 years ago...
Robert P. Krajewski
Internet: rpk@ai.mit.edu ; Lotus: robert_krajewski.lotus@crd.dnet.lotus.com