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From: dean@cs.mcgill.ca (Dean NEWTON)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave?
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Date: 14 Jan 91 18:00:50 GMT
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In article <127724@linus.mitre.org> djb@babypuss.mitre.org (David J. Braunegg) writes:
>>Lack of demand due to Common LISP's enormous size, complexity, resource
>>requirements, training, etc.
>>
>>Common LISP effectively died from obesity.
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>OK.  What are the problems preventing a smaller, more efficient Lisp
>so that we aren't forced to use the almost-a-programming-language C?
>
>Dave

Nothing.  It's called Scheme.

Kaveh Kardan
Taarna Systems
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(posting from a friend's account)