Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.x
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From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: XLISP name change?
Message-ID: <1991May1.004323.10231@doe.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 00:43:23 GMT


In <1303@zinn.MV.COM>, 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.

Ut absit! I merely suggested changing the name of this news group, not
of XLISP itself, which I was using before I had ever heard of X. As
a matter of fact, perhaps you should claim prior copyright on the name
X, and require royalties from all X-Windows users :-)


David
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