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  2. From: grant@pentagon-gw.army.mil (Pete Grant)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  4. Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan24.032656.26921@pentagon-gw.army.mil>
  6. Date: 24 Jan 93 03:26:56 GMT
  7. References: <KPC.93Jan19121805@zog.arc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan20.181244.8680@netlabs.com> <C1773p.C6x@dei.unipd.it>
  8. Organization: U.S. Army Artificial Intelligence Center, The Pentagon
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  11. In article <C1773p.C6x@dei.unipd.it> gandalf@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (ROBERTO AVANZI) writes:
  12. >In article <1993Jan20.181244.8680@netlabs.com> lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
  13. >>
  14. >>Please reply in Lisp, not English.  It's so much more expressive...
  15. >>
  16. >>Larry Wall
  17. >>lwall@netlabs.com
  18. >
  19. >: (GETPROP 'LISP 'BEAUTY)
  20. >"MARVELOUS"
  21. >
  22. >: (GETPROP 'PERL 'USEFULNESS)
  23. >"GREAT"
  24. >
  25. >Cheers
  26. >Roberto Avanzi
  27.  
  28. Cute, but what dialect?  I assume GETPROP <=> GET??
  29.  
  30. Pete.
  31.