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From: goldin@spot.uchicago.edu (Alexey Goldin)
Subject: Re: Lisp is alive, was "Re: Common LISP: The Next Generation"
In-Reply-To: Erik Naggum's message of 18 Sep 1996 10:15:27 +0000
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:05:45 GMT

In article <3052030527425472@naggum.no> Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:


   |   I think one of the really valuable lessons that Dylan has shown is that
   |   you can have a successful infix syntax *and* have all of the Lisp
   |   goodies.

   _all_ of the Lisp goodies?  except macros, except `read' on source code,
   except `pprint', except ...

   #\Erik
   -- 
   those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it


Imagine this:

in 2005 C++ ANSII standart comittee decides to introduce
alternate lisp-like syntax to make easier writing complex macros
;-)

It is quite possible...
