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  2. From: connolly@livy.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  4. Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
  5. Message-ID: <59072@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  6. Date: 24 Jan 93 20:10:50 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan20.181244.8680@netlabs.com> <19930120191159.1.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> <1993Jan21.230642.18561@netlabs.com>
  8. Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
  9. Reply-To: connolly@livy.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly)
  10. Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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  13. In article <1993Jan21.230642.18561@netlabs.com> lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
  14. >In article <19930120191159.1.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com (Scott McKay) writes:
  15. >: In what way is Lisp "bland ... all the way through"?
  16. >
  17. >There's little visual distinctiveness to distinguish mentally
  18. >distinctive constructs.
  19.  
  20. Uh, so English is just as bland?  Or should we be using curly braces
  21. instead of parentheses?  Syntactic Sugar...help!...I'm going
  22. hyperglycemic!!  Somebody change my readtable...quick!!
  23. Christopher Ian Connolly            connolly@cs.umass.edu
  24. Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics        wa2ifi
  25. University of Massachusetts at Amherst        Amherst, MA 01003
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