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Subject: Re: RLISP?
Message-ID: <4225@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 10:59:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 10:59:10 1987
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Reply-To: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
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Keywords: Pascal Lisp

In article <6267@mhuxu.UUCP> davec@mhuxu.UUCP (Dave Caswell) writes:

>	I recently ran across a language called RLISP.  It appears
>to be a preprocessor to make lisp as much like Pascal as possible. 

Rlisp is a surface syntax for Standard Lisp, and is part of the
Portable Standard Lisp (PSL) system.  It is inspired by Algol-60, not
Pascal.  Lispers around here hate it, while the symbolic algebra and
graphical modelling people think it's the only reasonable way to do Lisp.
In fact, they've been wanting a version of the parser moved into Common 
Lisp from PSL, so they can continue to have Rlisp!  It makes sense for
people doing massive formula manipulation - standard mathematical notation
will always win out over alternate syntaxes.  It's worth noting that
most Lisp dialects have some sort of Algol-like frontend, although Rlisp
is probably the most complete of them.

>		Dave Caswell

							stan shebs