Re: Why is Scheme not a Lisp? - Naggum cll archive

Subject: Re: Why is Scheme not a Lisp?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:15:28 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3225032139866303@naggum.net>

* tb+usenet@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
| But Scheme does call itself a Lisp!
| 
| The very beginning of the R5RS reads:
| 
| "The report gives a defining description of the programming language
| Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect
| of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and
| Gerald Jay Sussman."

  But how can you trust a specification that says the Lisp programming
  language was invented by Guy Lewis Steele, Jr., and Gerald Jay Sussman?

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