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On Wednesday 30 October 2002 17:24, Joe English wrote: > Alaric B. Snell wrote: > > [...] [Re: Common Lisp] CL needed a trimming, and > > Scheme was the result. They overtrimmed a bit but seem to be spending the > > time since profitably producing cleaned up versions of the more useful > > bits of CL they originally trimmed off. > > That's not how it happened; Scheme predates Common Lisp > by several years. > > Scheme started out as a small LISP dialect, and Common Lisp > started out as the union of several major LISP dialects. > CL inherited lexical scoping from Scheme (but not much else). Back when it was Schemer from the same nest as Planner, maybe, but the modern focus is on making a Lisp without all the rarely used complex bits. > The two are really very different languages. They're in > the same phylum -- both are evolutionary descendants of McCarthy's > original LISP, and there's been a (very little) bit of cross-pollination > between them -- but many language taxonomists don't even > place them in the same family. Oooh, I think a lot of people think of Scheme as a mini-Lisp; it's not a strict subset since the symbols are handled a lot more simply, but it's conceptually quite subsettish! > > --Joe English > > jenglish@f... > ABS -- A city is like a large, complex, rabbit - ARP
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