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From: lkramer@brahms.udel.edu (Laurence Kramer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: weird common lisp feature
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Date: 26 Feb 91 14:19:21 GMT
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Jeff,
Your comments are well taken.  I guess I was a little too quick to
pounce on a bug in KCL in order to make my anti-CommonLisp points.  I guess
someone used to working with compiled languages would feel more at home
with CL.  As for me, Lisp is a liberation from type declarations, etc., and
a vehicle to write even higher level languages, and unleash productivity
and creativity.  In my Lisp if a say (pack* 'abc "def") I get |abcdef|.
(I don't first have to worry about coercing the types of the arguments.)

Larry