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

[schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu.NO-SPAM (Scott Schwartz)]

wilson@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Wilson) writes:
| This is true of most Common Lisp implementations, but it doesn't have to be,

Yes, that's the point.

| I think that's the wrong tack to take in a discussion of scripting
| languages.  You don't have to live inside Scheme, for example.

The article I was responding to was making claims about full featured
CL compilers, not tiny scheme interpreters.  I was quoting Erik with
respect to the systems that he uses.

| If you want to make a tiny
| embeddable Scheme, you can do it just fine.  (Check out SIOD.)

Yes, yes, I know all about siod.  I like siod.