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From: tfb@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
In-Reply-To: cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk's message of Mon, 17 Oct 1994 19:15:05 +0000
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 08:12:02 GMT
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* Cyber Surfer wrote:
> 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 learnt CL from CLtL.  Until I got the ANSI document I don't think
I'd read anything else that describes CL.  I had programmed in other
Lisps (Cambridge Lisp, some DOS Lisps) before but I wasn't really
fluent -- for instance I had lots of trouble with scope &c.  I didn't
find it too hard to read, but I often learn things from reference
books.  I did have access to an implementation, in fact to at least 2.

--tim
