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Re: A Dylan implemented on Common Lisp
- To: info-mcl@digitool.com
- Subject: Re: A Dylan implemented on Common Lisp
- From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 19:59:58 GMT
- Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- References: <3jgef0$fnt@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>, <D5345w.3xC@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, <3jif2j$dqb@kernighan.cs.umass.edu>
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In article <3jif2j$dqb@kernighan.cs.umass.edu> eliot@cs.umass.edu (CHRISTOPHER ELIOT) writes:
>In article <D5345w.3xC@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>>Note that Scott Fahlman was one of the designers of Common Lisp
>>and had plenty of opportunities to eliminate any irritations that
>>irritated him.
>
>And means that his criticism of Common Lisp can't be
>dismissed as easily the complaints made by people who have only
>used Basic or Cobol.
Sure, but his former relative lack of opposition to various supposed
irritants does rather suggest that they didn't irritate him all that
much.
-- jd