Re: [pure-lang-users] gedit pure.lang

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Eddie Rucker wrote:
> One of these days, I'm going to try to program something with common lisp to see what it is like. Maybe then I can figure out why the 
> common lisp folks and the scheme folks bicker and bite at each other all of the time.

Well, CL hackers can follow their lineage back to the legendary days of 
the holy MacLisp, when men were men and computers were hulking giants. 
And Schemers can only look down in digust at the behemoth that CL is, 
with its unhygienic macros and all that legacy stuff. ;-)

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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