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Re: "Scheme has data types and Lisp doesn't."

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Subject: Re: "Scheme has data types and Lisp doesn't."
From: Jeff Dalton <mcvax!ukc!edcastle!aiai!jeff@uunet.uu.net>
Date: Tue ,15 Aug 89 10:52:37 EDT
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
References: <13046@well.UUCP>, <711@skye.ed.ac.uk>, <13120@well.UUCP>
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In article <13120@well.UUCP> nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) writes:
>Common LISP has lots of declarations.  But the programmer isn't required
>to provide them and the compiler implementor isn't required to make them
>do much.  CLTL: [...]  Not that SCHEME is really all that different.

I knew about all of the things you cite in CLtL.  I still don't see
how it explains the claim that "Scheme has data types and Lisp doesn't."

-- Jeff

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