Re: print out all members of a list, v.1.0

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article <87r5apwxad.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>,
>  "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
>> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> 
>> > In article 
>> > <d00d6215-5ab4-499d-8e7b-07168ad8a371@o18g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
>> >  rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> yes it is. emacs lisp became obsolete when scheme and common lisp came
>> >> out -- which is about 30 years ago.
>> >
>> > How is that possible, since Emacs Lisp came out AFTER Scheme and Common 
>> > Lisp?  CLtL was published in 1984, the same year Stallman started 
>> > writing GNU Emacs?  And Scheme is older, since CL took a number of ideas 
>> > from it (most notably lexical scoping).
>> 
>> At the same time as CL.  
>> The CL standard was completed in 1994.   1984 only marks the beginning
>> of the standardization effort.
>
> So?  CL predates the standardization effort.  1984 marks the END of 
> several years of work that produced the book "Common Lisp: the Language".

Well, I understand reticence of RMS to use a language that's not even
standardized yet.  Of course, I shall then wonder why he had to design
his own non-standardized language.

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