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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Unix Lisp Environments (why the slow evolution)
Message-ID: <427@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 9 May 89 18:45:52 GMT
References: <7802@zodiac.UUCP> <1258@majestix.ida.liu.se>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <1258@majestix.ida.liu.se> uda@majestix.ida.liu.se (Ulf Dahlen) writes:
>I am not saying Lisp is better than C but that the programming
>environment on a Lisp machine is superior to the "environment" on,
>say, a SUN.

There are certainly advantages to using a Lisp machine (and Lisp
generally).  For one thing, it's nice to be able to change one
function without having to relink the whole porgram.  But the
Sun C "environment" is not without its virtues.  Dbxtool is
an effective debugger, for example, and source-code control
systems (sccs, rcs) and make have to count for something too.