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From: David Betz <dbetz@xlisper.mv.com>
Subject: Re: Does anyone know of a Common LISP which runs under VMS on a VAX?
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Tom Almy wrote:
> 
> Of course I intentionally changed the name of my "hacked" version of
> your code to "XLISP-PLUS" to avoid possible confusion.

Actually, I wouldn't call XLISP-PLUS a "hacked" version of XLISP.  It's
a very nice evolution of my simple language.  I think you did a great
service to the XLISP community by building and supporting it.

I would just like to think I too can still use the XLISP name for my
evolution of the language.  In my mind, XLISP was a concept not a
particular language design.  I wanted a small simple Lisp that supported
object-oriented programming.  My idea of what that means has changed
over the years and so has XLISP.  I suppose XScheme was a better name
for what I'm working on now but that name had the problem that people
expected it to track the RxRS reports on Scheme and I wasn't always in
agreement with those reports.  Renaming it to XLISP decoupled me from
either the Scheme or the Common Lisp standards and allowed me to take
the good parts of both to build a language I was comfortable with.  I
think what I have now is still in the spirit of what XLISP 1.0 set out
to be so I think it still deserves to be called by that name.

David Betz

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