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Subject: Re: Looping constructs (was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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In article <CwJuu7.3un@rheged.dircon.co.uk>
           simon@rheged.dircon.co.uk "Simon Brooke" writes:

> Cambridge LisP has the beautiful construct
> 
>         (loop 
>                 forms 
>                 (until <condition> value) 
>                 forms
>                 (while <condition> value)
>                 forms)

Is this the Cambridge Lisp that was once available for the ST and
Amiga machines? I used that a bit, a few years ago. It was the first
time I'd seen compiled Lisp code, and I was impressed by it. It made
using GEM in Lisp look veyr easy, very fast, and yet still as friendly
as you'd expect for a Lisp.

I was only sad that it didn't use GEM itself, as the character mode
interface was rather basic compared to what was possible in a GEM
enviroment.
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