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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: lisp
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Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 17:46:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  9 17:46:14 1987
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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.
However, it looks like most industrial-strength Lisp implementations
are going to be Common Lisp compatible.

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Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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