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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: LISP interpreter ?
In-Reply-To: Jong-Won Choi's message of 18 Sep 1995 23:52:48 GMT
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In article <43l0og$f4r@lgrnd.goldstar.co.kr> Jong-Won Choi <jwchoi> writes:

>Most of (or all) Lisp implementaion is interpereter based.  Also, most of (or
>all) of them have their compiler. Some has delivery system.

>I think you should read Lisp FAQ

And you should re-read it, as well as reading some papers on Lisp from after
1965.  Very few modern implementations are interpreted at all; instead, they
use incremental compilation of the source code for the interactive environment.

The only interpreter-based Lisp of major consequence these days is the one
underlying GNU Emacs.

Stop spreading misinformation about Lisp.

								Rich Alderson
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Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
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