Subject: Re: Lisp fragmentation (was Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like)
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:35:57 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <z8GdnTDXKaowgaHfRVn-2A@speakeasy.net>
Greg Menke <gregm-news@toadmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| How in the hell do you expect to document what must, may,
| must not and may not be in a language without a long document?
+---------------

IEEE Standard Scheme? [IEEE 1178-1990 (R1995).]
Almost exactly the same length as R4RS, 50 pages or so.

"Standard" doesn't *have* to mean "long document"...


-Rob

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