Subject: Re: Your introduction to Lisp... From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:24:35 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3227617474730404@naggum.net> * gat@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat) | FWIW, my reason for writing Scheme in CL (if indeed that is what I'm | doing) is that IMO it is much easier to write Scheme in CL than it is in | Scheme. If true, this explains why Scheme freaks so seldom learn Common Lisp well. Common Lisp would just be a "better Scheme" to them, and just like C programmers keep programming in C forever because all the "modern" languages all have a basic C-like syntax. Perhaps a significant change in the syntax is _necessary_ to make people change their habits, as they would no longer be visually tempted to think it is the same as they know. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. Post with compassion: http://home.chello.no/~xyzzy/kitten.jpg