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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Looking for MACLSP compatibility
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In article <gsharp.1.002E98CF@primenet.com> gsharp@primenet.com (Greg Sharp)
writes:

>There was a version of lisp in the early seventies called MACLSP - anyone 
>heard of it?  What current flavor of Lisp comes closest to it (has statements 
>like "FEXPR" and  "declare")?

I've answered this over in comp.lang.lisp--cross-posting your query would have
been a good idea.

No modern Lisp has FEXPRs.  Common Lisp is the refined union of several MACLISP
descendants/dialects.

Note the followup.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
