Re: Looking for MACLSP compatibility

[alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)]

In article <gsharp.1.002E98CF@primenet.com> gsharp@primenet.com (Greg Sharp)
writes:

>There was a version of lisp in the early seventies called MACLSP - anyone 
>heard of it?  What current flavor of Lisp comes closest to it (has statements 
>like "FEXPR" and  "declare")?

I've answered this over in comp.lang.lisp--cross-posting your query would have
been a good idea.

No modern Lisp has FEXPRs.  Common Lisp is the refined union of several MACLISP
descendants/dialects.

Note the followup.
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