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jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:

>Scheme is not a "cleaned-up Lisp".  It's really a different language
>with a similar syntax and which shares some of the same building blocks
>(lists, S-exps).
	...
>You have it completely bass-ackwards.  Scheme came before Common Lisp.
>Common Lisp was an attempt to create a unified Lisp that borrowed some
>of Scheme's advances over Lisp (like static scoping).

Check out 
     * Steele and Gabriel. The Evolution of LISP, ACM SIGPLAN Notices,
       Vol 28(3), 231-270, March 1993.
to read an account of the history of Lisp straight from (two of)
the horses' mouth(s)!  Also available as
cs.indiana.edu:pub/scheme-repository/doc/pubs/Evolution-of-Lisp.ps.gz

Recommended reading for those of us not intimately familiar with
what went on in the Lisp world.
