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Avoid Lisp and Scheme in the same list


From: Tino Calancha
Subject: Avoid Lisp and Scheme in the same list
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 23:18:30 +0900 (JST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.20 (LRH 67 2015-01-07)


It reads weird Lisp and Scheme in the same list with
the other languages: for instance, in that list,
Lisp and Python looks two independent categories, but
Scheme is a subcategory of Lisp.
I prefer to introduce Scheme in the next sentence as
follows:

From: Tino Calancha <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 23:12:05 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid Lisp and Scheme in the same list

* standards.texi (programming languages):
---
 standards-1248.texi | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/standards-1248.texi b/standards-1248.texi
index cbb6268..8674649 100644
--- a/standards-1248.texi
+++ b/standards-1248.texi
@@ -295,13 +295,13 @@ speed, the best language to use is C.  C++ is ok too, but 
please don't
 make heavy use of templates.  So is Java, if you compile it.

 When highest efficiency is not required, other languages commonly used
-in the free software community, such as Lisp, Scheme, Python, Ruby, and
-Java, are OK too.  Scheme, as implemented by address@hidden, plays a
-particular role in the GNU System: it is the preferred language to
-extend programs written in C/C++, and also a fine language for a wide
-range of applications.  The more GNU components use Guile and Scheme,
-the more users are able to extend and combine them (@pxref{The Emacs
-Thesis,,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}).
+in the free software community, such as Lisp, Python, Ruby, and
+Java, are OK too.  A Lisp dialect, Scheme, as implemented by
address@hidden, plays a particular role in the GNU System: it is the
+preferred language to extend programs written in C/C++, and also a fine
+language for a wide range of applications.  The more GNU components
+use Guile and Scheme, the more users are able to extend and combine
+them (@pxref{The Emacs Thesis,,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}).

 Many programs are designed to be extensible: they include an interpreter
 for a language that is higher level than C.  Often much of the program
--
2.8.1


--
Tino



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