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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Rumors aren't rumors anymore
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Date: 8 Sep 90 17:03:49 GMT
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What? No more Lisp? They can't be serious!!!

What does it mean to raise the lowest common denominator, if it is
lowered afterwards?? I relied on having LISP on this machine, it was
one of the reasons to buy a NeXT. 

No Common Lisp, No common denominator!

Lisp is a very powerful tool and I need it. I actually hoped that
NeXT's 2.0 would include the new version of Franz Allegro Common Lisp,
and the debugging tools they call Composer! After all, the reason why
Lisp is not used that much right now is that it was uninstalled and
it's existence on the NeXT was not very well documented. I'd rather
hope that NeXT changes it's mind and includes Common Lisp and works to
integrate it better into the existing environement.

Now the really important question:
Will the CL of rel. 1.0 be compatible with rel 2.0? Will it be
compatible with the new AppKit? Should my Lisp no longer work and
should it not be possible to easily and cheaply upgrade to the new
version, I will definitely feel cheated.

Ronald
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