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From: freeman@argosy.UUCP (Jay R. Freeman)
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Subject: Re: Virtues of Lisp syntax
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Date: 6 Sep 90 17:11:47 GMT
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    I have forgotten the details, but there used to be a non-Lispy
front-end parser for the once highly-popular "Portable Standard Lisp"
dialect.  I believe it was called "RLisp", and accepted source in
a quite conventional Algol-like syntax.  I myself did not prefer it to
conventional Lisp syntax (and though I at the time was much more familiar
with conventional lisp than with any language with Algol-like syntax, I
nevertheless got well familiar with this parser, since my assignment at
the time was to convert it into something else).

    Perhaps it would be interesting to find out if there are any other
users or former users of PSL on the net, and what if anything they
thought of RLisp.  I had the feeling that it had not caught on and did
not look as if it were going to.

                                                -- Jay Freeman

	  <canonical disclaimer -- I speak only for myself>