Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!zurich.ai.mit.edu!markf From: markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Friedman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Lisp/C Wars Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 15:48:59 GMT References: <1991Apr4.075558.19873@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab. Lines: 18 In-reply-to: jallen@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu's message of 4 Apr 91 07:55:58 GMT In article <1991Apr4.075558.19873@sbcs.sunysb.edu> jallen@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Joseph Allen) writes: LISP: Just try to write a terminal screen optimizer in it which is fast enough to be used in a real editor. We have done that. The Edwin editor that comes with MIT Scheme is an EMACS clone written, naturally enough, in Scheme (a.k.a. the uncommon Lisp). -Mark -- Mark Friedman MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab 545 Technology Sq. Cambridge, Ma. 02139 markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu