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- From: welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
- Subject: Re: Lisp Parsers
- In-Reply-To: berglas@cs.uq.oz.au's message of 5 Jan 93 07: 18:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <WELCH.93Jan5112512@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Originator: welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu
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- References: <11586@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:25:12 GMT
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- In article <11586@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> berglas@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Berglas) writes:
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- I am trying to introduce Lisp to the UQ CS Dept, in which everybody
- knows that real men use C++. I will put on a demo of Garnet etc. shortly
- but most important decisions are made on first impressions, and the
- first impressions are the (())()()s. God said that f(a, b); is easier
- to read than (f a b), it requires less characters.
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- Interlisp (and it's successor, Medley), have supported this format,
- called "apply form". As far as I know no one's ever used it outside of
- the exec (interface to the interpreter), as it really messes with your
- brain to use it for deeply nested forms (or at least my brain :-).
-
- ...arun
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- Arun Welch
- Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
- welch@cis.ohio-state.edu
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