Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Path: utzoo!sq!dak
From: dak@sq.sq.com (David A Keldsen)
Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave?
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.204123.21394@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc.
References: <127724@linus.mitre.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 91 20:41:23 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?

Ah, well, there is such an animal.  It's called Scheme, and it has just
been standardized by the IEEE.  It's a small, lexically-scoped member
of the LISP family.  (Small in that the standard is only about 50
pages; compare this to _Common Lisp, The Language_ (Second Edition) at
just over 1000 pages.  (Yep, apples vs. oranges, but you get the point.))

Scheme even has a newsgroup, which is available as a mailing list digest
as well.  Have a look at comp.lang.scheme.

I'm not a spokesperson for SoftQuad or the IEEE, but I sure do like
their tastes in programming languages :-)

Dak
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"Sort of?  _Sort of_ the end of the world?  You mean we won't be certain?
We'll all look around and say 'Pardon me, did you hear something?'?"
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