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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 19:03:20 GMT
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In article <782421305snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk writes:
>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?

That's how *I* learned Common Lisp.

