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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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In article <6217@castle.ed.ac.uk> expc66@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ulf Dahlen) writes:
>What did the ``original'' McCarthy Lisp syntax look like?

Umm, actually, I can't recall exactly...

But I think it was something like:

The list (a b c) ==> (a, b, c)

(cons x y) ==> cons[x;y]
Robert P. Krajewski
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