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Re: Lisp is neither (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot)

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Subject: Re: Lisp is neither (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot)
From: Ben Hanson <benh@cristie.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:25:57 +0100
Organization: Cristie Electronics Ltd
Reply-to: benh@cristie.co.uk
John Ousterhout wrote:
<SNIP>
> This reinforces my claim that you should use different tools for different
> tasks.  This is also why I didn't mention Lisp in the paper.  The things I
> discussed in the white paper aren't the things that Lisp was designed for
> or that it does best, so it isn't really fair to compare Lisp along those
> dimensions.

Lots of Irritating Spurious Parenthesis!

Ben

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