From: John P. Looney (jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie)
Date: Wed 02 Feb 2000 - 14:51:34 GMT
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 02:44:35PM +0000, Smelly Pooh mentioned:
> In reply to kevin lyda's flatulent wordings,
> > c works very much like the computer underneath it. lisp is somewhat
> > like functions in math but with some hacks that allow c-like
> > programming.
> Lisp takes very little out of C, it's only about 15 years older aswell
And would have become *the* language for applications (leaving C for
"systems implementation", only for the fact that everyone and their granny
started producing commerical and incompatible versions that made the
Commercial SysV vs. BSD split look like a marketing difference.
Kate
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