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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave?
Message-ID: <4026@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Jan 91 12:08:02 GMT
References: <127724@linus.mitre.org> <7796@plains.NoDak.edu>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <7796@plains.NoDak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G. Person) writes:

>>>Common LISP effectively died from obesity.

I don't think CL has died, though it may not be as successful as one
might like.

>This is very right.  How manny different functions do the same thig in 
>LISP? 

I don't think this is a very big problem.  There are very few
functions that do exactly the same thing (car and first come
to mind).  It's true that there is often more than one way to
do things (e.g. to get the third element of a list on might
use caddr, third, nth, or elt).  On the other hand, a fair 
amount of potential duplication has been avoided by having
sequence functions (e.g., length) that can be applied to both
vectors and lists.