Subject: Re: IS(O-)Lisp status? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1996/07/23 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3047142439583232@arcana.naggum.no> [Erik Naggum] | (not that I'm anywhere near _happy_ with `while' and `for'.) [Marc Wachowitz] | I guess they are for programmers who don't trust their implementation | about a decent optimization of recursion - not too unrealistic if one | expects the language to be used not only in the form of compiling to | machine code, but also as a simple scripting/extension language for | applications. I was referring to the gratuitous renaming of `do' in the case of `for'. I happen to like `loop' for a number of applications, but find `while' to be an oddly un-Lisp-like name. such little things distract me because they are so do devoid of value that one wonders why they bothered. #\Erik