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Re: MacLISP
- To: George J. Carrette <GJC at MIT-MC>
- Subject: Re: MacLISP
- From: Dave Touretzky at CMU-10A
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 82 07:29:00 GMT
- Cc: schrag at radc-tops20, bug-lisp at MIT-MC, rwk at MIT-MC, Guy Steele at CMU-10A
- In-reply-to: George J. Carrette@MIT-MC's message of 25 Jul 82 01:00-EST
- Original-date: 25 July 1982 0329-EDT
Nonsense. You've misunderstood Mr. Schrag's problem. The people at Syracuse
want to write code in a clean and simple Lisp dialect that they can then
move to a Lisp Machine. They are currently working in UCI Lisp. If they
wrote equivalent code in Maclisp it would be trivial to move to the Lisp
Machine.
These guys do not need to know about #+ conditionalizations or any of the
other esoteric psuedo-Lisp Machine cruft that's been added to MacLisp in
the last few years. Give them a distribution tape and tell them to say
DEFUN instead of DE, and I'm sure they'll be happy.
-- Dave Touretzky