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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: lisp
Message-ID: <709@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 10:12:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 10:12:46 1987
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In article <8229@think.UUCP>, barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
> In article <649@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >For god's sake... define some subset language that will be available in
                                 ^^^^^^
> >everyone's LISP, and stick to it.
> 
> Well, this is the purpose of the Common Lisp language, although it
> will probably not make it into EVERYONE'S Lisp, because it is too big.

If it's too big, it sure ain't a subset.

How about Lisp 1.5? It shouldn't be too hard to at least emulate 1.5, and it
is certainly not too big. I may be biased because I cut my lisp teeth on
1.5, but at that time all the lisp books I could find at least covered it.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
--                 'U`      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not seismo!soma (blush)