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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: lisp (was: Compatibility with EBCDIC)
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 16:40:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 16:40:21 1987
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>                                                               Are lisps
>REALLY so diverse (disclaimer: I known nothing about lisp except that it 
>is written using Lots of Insipid Silly Parentheses :-) )  that they don't
>even accept a mutual subset of the language?

Implementations of lisp can have WILDLY different syntax.  The
difference between "Common Lisp" and "Scheme" is huge.  The syntax (the
"Lots of Insipid Silly Parenthesis") part is the same, but the
functions that are supported are very different.