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COMMON LISP is the PL/I of LISPs

Actually, I think COMMON LISP will do better than PL/I did as a usable
standard.  Personally I think Scheme is the APL of LISPs.  It's great
for writing clever, unreadable hacks.  Actually, the analogy could go:

	1960's		APL
	1970's		PASCAL		PL/I
	1980's		Scheme		ADA
	1990's				COMMON LISP

PASCAL is teleologically similar to Scheme.

				Seth