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- From: akman@trbilun.bitnet (Varol Akman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Lisp syntax beauty? (was Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?)
- Summary: format
- Message-ID: <700@dicle.bitnet>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 06:45:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.230642.18561@netlabs.com> <19930122162651.0.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> <dfs.727723285@noonian>
- Reply-To: akman@dicle.UUCP (Varol Akman)
- Organization: Bilkent University Ankara-Turkey
- Lines: 18
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- In article <dfs.727723285@noonian> dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes:
- > [parts omitted]
- >Take a look at all the baroque format directives in Common Lisp. I mean,
- >who really needs the number 394829348234982435 formatted in English words??
- >
-
- I think I do! (But for Turkish words, and I think that would be easy to
- do since there is a rather trivial 1-1 mapping.)
- Here we fill a ridiculous government form every month (just to claim
- some money back in return for receipts for goods with a value-added tax)
- and the form won't be accepted unless you you write the sum total
- in Turkish. Unfortunately my totals hardly approach the neighborhood of the
- number you've cited :-) :-)
-
- Varol Akman
- Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science
- Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara 06533, Turkey
- E-mail: akman@trbilun.bitnet
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