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From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Re: Prolog implementations in Lisp
Message-ID: <306@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Mar 88 22:14:51 GMT
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Reply-To: jeff@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
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In article <1600009@otter.hple.hp.com> kers@otter.hple.hp.com
(Christopher Dollin) writes:
>Pop11 is like Lisp[*3] in that it has dynamic typing, dynamic store allocation
>with garbage collection, first class (really, *1st*, not 1.5st) procedures,

I hesitate to say this in a Prolog group, but I think we should avoid
random pokes at Lisp, especially when they are at least somewhat
misleading.  Pop11 did not have 1st class functions (as opposed to 
"frozen formals") until it added lexical scoping.

Cheers,
Jeff