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From: miller@ACORN.CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Brad Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: BSI standards
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Date: 11 Mar 88 02:55:17 GMT
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    Date: 10 Mar 88 15:12:29 GMT
    From: shebs%defun.utah.edu.uucp@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley T. Shebs)

[...]

    In my opinion, character objects is one of the few things that Common Lisp
    can't be faulted on!  The first time you get back #\s instead of 115 is
    enough to convince anyone that hasn't memorized the ASCII table.  [...]

							    stan shebs
							    shebs@cs.utah.edu

Indeed, it need not even be ASCII... so it's even less dependant on the
hardware you happen to be hacking on!

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Brad Miller
U. Rochester Comp Sci Dept.
'If anything is True, this is.'