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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Against the Tide of Common LISP
Message-ID: <2865@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 10:58:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  3 10:58:43 1986
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Reply-To: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Organization: System Development Corporation R&D, Santa Monica
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Summary: Transor still exists

In article <1372@well.UUCP> jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs) writes:
>There used to be a program called TRANSOR that worked pretty well; did it
>get lost?  Or does everybody feel the need to start from scratch...
>
TRANSOR still exists in the Interlisp world, though it almost disappeared
because noone had wanted to see why it wouldn't compile in VAX or D versions.
I think there are almost no users.
The worst problem now is that the majority of Interlisp programmers have
only used Interlisp D, so have almost no familiarity with the old teletype
structure editor.  Transor translations are specified in terms of those
editor commands.  Even Jim Goodwin, the author, would like to see transor
disappear, but the problem is that it's not easy to create a tool with the
power and flexibility provided by Transor + editor.
-- 
Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2525 Colorado Ave
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