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In article <3eac2j$n89@cambridge.village.com>
           gjc@cambridge.village.com "George Carrette" writes:

> No great suprise, but lisp serves well enough as a Report Generation
> Language (RPG) for creating Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).

I've been using Scheme to do exact that. I compile my own HTML
index (currently) for 480+ URLs, and 100+ pages. I find that
symbolic expressions are ideally suited to describing heirarchies
of (gopher-like) index pages.

It's still at the alpha stage, but when it's more complete, and
properly tested, I may put it on an FTP site. Right now, I'm
also writing a compiler for my index compiler. (For recursion,
see recursion.) I'd like to make it a _lot_ faster, coz I have
a slow machine. Plus, the Lisp compiler will have other uses.
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