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From: jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: 3-Lisp
Message-ID: <1405@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Jul-86 12:26:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1405
Posted: Thu Jul 10 12:26:28 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jul-86 04:09:09 EDT
References: <137@utah-orion.UUCP>
Reply-To: jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs)
Organization: CONSART Systems Inc,  Manhattan Beach, CA
Lines: 26
Keywords: Lisp, 3-Lisp, purity, reflection


In  <137@utah-orion.UUCP>, Stan Sheb writes:

>I have an implementation of 3-Lisp that used to work in PSL, but then
>I translated it to Common Lisp, and as of yet have not gotten the
>necessary readtable hacking to work yet

So much for the wonderful portability of Common Lisp!

To add another story about the wonders of porting to Common
Lisp from a Local User's Group meeting of one of the Lisp Machine
companies, "I ported a large program from Zeta-Lisp to Common
Lisp.  After I had it almost working, I decided I'd had enough.  I
wouldn't use the Common Lisp version".

The person telling this story shall remain nameless, but definitely
knows what s/he is doing...

For those who have been unable to understand some of my points
about Common Lisp and how it SHOULD have been done, see the
EuLisp/ISO draft standards!

-Jeffrey M. Jacobs, CONSART Systems Inc.
P.O. Box 3016, Manhattan Beach, CA
CIS:75076,2603
BIX:jeffjacobs