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From: dsimmons@CS.Cornell.EDU (Daniel G. Simmons)
Subject: Re: XLISP name change?
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dbetz@pwmag.UUCP (David Betz) writes:

>Someone recently suggested that I consider changing the name of
>XLISP (and I assume XScheme).  I'm not really interested in doing
>that.  As far as I know, XLISP existed before the X windows system
>did.  At least, it existed before I was aware of X.  There are lots
>of references to XLISP around and I think it would be confusing to
>change the name.

I could be wrong, but I thought the suggestion was to change the name
of the news group--not the programs.  This seems like a fairly good idea
to me for the reasons that were originally stated, but I don't know
how difficult such a procedure would be...


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Daniel G. Simmons  			dsimmons@cs.cornell.edu
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