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From: ahlenius@motcid.UUCP (Mark Ahlenius)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave?
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Date: 15 Jan 91 15:32:42 GMT
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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.

>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?

There is a smaller, faster dialect of CL out there and as far as I
know it is being taught in some of the major universities
 - its Scheme.

 Quite a while back I read that Scheme was taught as the "first programming"
 language at MIT (via Structure and Interpretation of Computer Prg.)
 Is this still the case?

 There appears to be some renewed interest in Scheme lately.

 Although it lacks many features that CL has, it is small., compact,
 and fairly quick.

	'mark
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