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Re: print out all members of a list, v.1.0


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: print out all members of a list, v.1.0
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:39:23 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> Emacs Lisp is mostly a reimplementation of MockLisp, the dialect that 
> was used in Gosling Emacs, which was the original inspiration for GNU 
> Emacs.  It's also very much like MACLISP, the dialect that RMS had been 
> using for over a decade.
>
> So he didn't design his own language, he was basically sticking with 
> what he knew and liked.

MacLisp probably.  CL is inspired a lot from MacLisp too.   But I've
read that MockLisp was far from being a full lisp (as its name would
imply), and that it was probably the reason why RMS had to write a new
real lisp for his emacs.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.


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