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Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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In article <37ga57$9v8@disunms.epfl.ch>
           matomira@di.epfl.ch "Fernando Mato Mira" writes:

> Is this irony on "great"? I guess so.
> 
> [ There's _NO_ LET in it (you have to make your locals be `aux' variables).
>   I have used it. It _stinks_. ]

I didn't say it was perfect. Perhaps I should merely have said that I
like the idea of using a Lisp as an embedded language for a CAD app?
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