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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)
Message-ID: <J+3ABP7@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <814@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 22:43:19 GMT

In article <814@optima.cs.arizona.edu> gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
> Xlisp is far from a toy, it is
> more powerful than C (including C's standard libraries).

For some definition of "powerful", perhaps. In my definition, which comes
down to "how well does it cover the problems I want to solve" it's a toy.
It doesn't even allow you to link to arbitrary libraries, for heavens' sake.

> It is just a "toy" compared to other Lisp's.

Like lisp 1.5?
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