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From: goldin@spot.uchicago.edu (Alexey Goldin)
Subject: Re: scheme is supposed to help me concentrate on concepts...why is it so WEIRD?!
In-Reply-To: Ken Hirsch's message of Sun, 28 Apr 1996 12:13:28 -0400
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 19:43:34 GMT

In article <31839928.61CC@ix.netcom.com> Ken Hirsch <kahirsch@ix.netcom.com> writes:

   What is the advantage of having the syntax of special forms the same as
   the syntax of funtions calls?  They are fundamentally different.  What
   is the advantage of having the syntax of definitions the same as the syntax
   of functions calls?

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   Hmmm, let's see...
     LISP has been around 20 years longer than C.
     My editor is written in ...
     My mail program is written in ...
     My operating system is written in ...
     The network protocols are written in ...
     My compiler is written in ...  (Even SCM is written in C!)
     My word processor is written in ...
     My spreadsheet is written in ...
     My drawing program is written in ...

   They're not all in C, but none of the programs I own are written in LISP or
   Scheme.

   It's probably just a historical accident, though.  I'm sure the inherent
   superiority of LISP will eventually win out.  :-)

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Hmm, my editor, newsreader and  mail program are written in Lisp.
And I do not need wordprocessor because my editor + TeX replace
it nicely.

I mean EMACS, of course.
(sorry, just could not resist ;)

SCM compiler is written in Scheme, btw.
