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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!castle!aiai!jeff@uunet.uu.net>
Date: Mon ,7 Aug 89 07:00:26 EDT
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In article <9085@thorin.cs.unc.edu> bts@evergreen.cs.unc.edu (Bruce Smith) writes:
>I heard that Scheme was to be preferred because compiled Scheme
>executes much faster than compiled Common Lisp.  The reason for
>that difference?  Because, of course, "Scheme has data types
>and Lisp doesn't."

Some people out there still think "everything in Lisp is a list".
Maybe that's it.  Of course, it's not true that everything _is_ a
list, in Common Lisp or Scheme.

Jeff Dalton,                      JANET: J.Dalton@uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,        ARPA:  J.Dalton%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.             UUCP:  ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!J.Dalton

References:
- Re: "Scheme has data types and Lisp doesn't."
  - From: Bruce Smith <thorin!evergreen!bts@mcnc.org>

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