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From: jpdres10@usl-pc.usl.edu (Green Eric Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Message-ID: <268@usl-pc.usl.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 89 19:26:17 GMT
References: <3861@mipos3.intel.com> <10141@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jpdres10@usl-pc.UUCP (Green Eric Lee)
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
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In article <10141@ihlpb.ATT.COM> gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly) writes:
>From article <3861@mipos3.intel.com>, by nate@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess):
[Re: TPU superior to LISP?]
>It really is superior to lisp and a lot more readable!

Don't you mean that "TPU is more similar to Pascal than Lisp is",
rather than, "TPU is superior to Lisp"? This tends to imply that being
Pascalish is better than being Lispish. As a sideline Lisp fan (esp.
the Scheme dialect), I find that to be a bit, err, reversed.

Certainly most people here will know Pascal. After all, it IS the
standard introductory level language for most CS departments. However,
I shudder to think that there are professional computer programmers
out there who have never written programs in Lisp, who, for that
matter, have never even encountered Lisp. What college did these
so-called "computer scientists" graduate from? Northwest Mississippi
Community College and Day Care Center?

(Yes, it's unsuited for novice users -- so what?)

>Gregg Wonderly                             DOMAIN: gregg@ihlpb.att.com
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