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


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: print out all members of a list, v.1.0
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:36:40 -0500
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In article <87r5apwxad.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>,
 "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:

> 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.

So?  CL predates the standardization effort.  1984 marks the END of 
several years of work that produced the book "Common Lisp: the Language".

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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