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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: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:56:42 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article 
> <d00d6215-5ab4-499d-8e7b-07168ad8a371@o18g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
>  rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> yes it is. emacs lisp became obsolete when scheme and common lisp came
>> out -- which is about 30 years ago.
>
> How is that possible, since Emacs Lisp came out AFTER Scheme and Common 
> Lisp?  CLtL was published in 1984, the same year Stallman started 
> writing GNU Emacs?  And Scheme is older, since CL took a number of ideas 
> from it (most notably lexical scoping).

At the same time as CL.  
The CL standard was completed in 1994.   1984 only marks the beginning
of the standardization effort.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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