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Quoth hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker):
> > for those interested in webrunner, and its superior extension language

> When using anonymous ftp, I can see the papers there, but get a
> 'permission denied' message.

I was able to retrieve the papers, uncompress them, untar them, find a
copy of ps2ascii, and ps2ascii them, but I was disappointed.

It must be thread drift:

I thought that surely since the pointer was posted to
comp.lang.scheme, the language would be a dialect of Lisp.  I'm
interested in Lisp web software and versions of Lisp that can be used
for everyday tasks.  I thought perhaps it would be worth the effort
for me to find out about this language.

It had a "nifty" recommendation from an implementer of Guile.  It
sounded almost like it had something to do with Oaklisp.

But the language has, as far as I can tell, no relation to Lisp.  It
appears to be a dialect of C+/- (:-)).  The word lisp appears just
once.

The same thing happened for me with es.  And it threatened to happen
with Dylan.  I guess I have to wait until somebody explicitly says
that a language is a dialect of Lisp before I can really believe it is
worth the effort to investigate it!  :-)
