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From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)
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Date: 19 Mar 91 08:01:22 GMT
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In article  <H-2A982@xds13.ferranti.com> Peter da Silva writes:
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]Besides:
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]-rwx--x--x   3 bin      bin        29217 Sep 28  1988 /bin/sh
]-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      206380 Nov  8 12:02 libXlisp.a
]-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      175889 Nov  8 12:11 xlisp
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]And this is a "toy" language!

And this is a bogus comparison.  If you want to compare the sizes of
the tools, you have to add enough tools to give /bin/sh similar
functionality to the "toy" language.  Xlisp is far from a toy, it is
more powerful than C (including C's standard libraries).  It is just a
"toy" compared to other Lisp's.
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					David Gudeman
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