Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!ut-sally!pyramid!hplabs!hplabsc!kempf From: kempf@hplabsc.UUCP (Jim Kempf) Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Spice Lisp (and more Common Lisp arguments) Message-ID: <334@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 10:30:41 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.334 Posted: Fri Jun 27 10:30:41 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 07:01:34 EDT References: <1022@spice.cs.cmu.edu> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 7 Summary: Loooong functions In article <1022@spice.cs.cmu.edu>, djz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Daniel Zigmond) writes: > OK, Mr. Jacobs, so what's wrong with Spice Lisp? Why do you keep emphasizing Well, for one thing, some of the functions are pages and pages long. An example is the AREF function. It runs to about 20 pages! From the software engineering point of view, this is NOT the ideal situation. Jim Kempf hplabs!kempf