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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!biosci!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!aiai!jeff
  2. From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  4. Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
  5. Message-ID: <8261@skye.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 19:15:04 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan14.055140.5909@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1jekrqINN339@news.aero.org> <1993Jan19.122952.6942@wavehh.hanse.de>
  8. Sender: news@aiai.ed.ac.uk
  9. Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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  12. In article <1993Jan19.122952.6942@wavehh.hanse.de> cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:
  13.  
  14. >I wonder, if it is possible, to change the synatx of LISP without
  15. >loosing it's advantages.
  16.  
  17. You mean it's other advantages?  For many of us, Lisp's syntax is
  18. an advantage, not a disadvantage.
  19.  
  20. -- jd
  21.