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Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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In article <CxMpD2.525@rheged.dircon.co.uk>
           simon@rheged.dircon.co.uk "Simon Brooke" writes:

> the reference (anybody know it?); (2) This was just about the time
> when X3J13 were driving their nails into the coffin of LisP, so modern
> LisP programmers (if forced to use the aluminium book) would probably
> be slower; (3) I doubt whether C++ would have been considered at the
> time (too new).

Are you saying that some programmers try to Learn CL by reading CLtL?
When was this, by the way? I read about CL in the mid 80s, but it
was a few years more before I learned of C++.

Thanks,
Martin Rodgers
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