Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!linus!mingus!john
From: john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: weird common lisp feature [sic]
Summary: Blah blah blah
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.145056.29773@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 22 Feb 91 14:50:56 GMT
References: <12413@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Feb21.104336.26012@Think.COM> <18935@brahms.udel.edu>
Sender: john@mitre.org (John Burger)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730
Lines: 22
Nntp-Posting-Host: mingus.mitre.org

lkramer@brahms.udel.edu (Laurence Kramer) writes:

> [Misinterpretation of bug in KCL as CL semantics deleted]

> Do people programming in common lisp really need their heads
> examined? No, they should be pitied because their options are few.

> In an ideal world we would all be programming in muLisp.  It is
> beautiful, small, efficient, extensible, and really embodies the
> spirit of what Lisp should be.  Two big problems: it is imprisoned
> within DOS's 640k barrier and isn't portable.

Gee, it sounds like my options would really be increased if I used
muLisp.



--
John Burger                                               john@mitre.org

"You ever think about .signature files? I mean, do we really need them?"
  - alt.andy.rooney