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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: The powerlessness of Lisp
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1991Mar26.172536.12178@linus.mitre.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 18:21:40 GMT

In article <1991Mar26.172536.12178@linus.mitre.org> john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger) writes:
>   A ``REAL source level debugger'' and incremental compilation are
>   functions of the environment.

> Fine. Then the distribution of languages with these features should be
> independent of whether those languages have dynamic typing.  This
> doesn't appear to be the case, however.

Just for the hell of it, let me point out that the two languages that
have the greatest number of units out with these features *are* statically
typed: Forth and Basic.
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