From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc1.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Why is Scheme not a Lisp? References: <87u1rl339b.fsf@photino.sid.rice.edu> <87r8mpnfpm.fsf@becket.becket.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3225032139866303@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:15:28 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1016043328 193.71.199.50 (Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:15:28 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:15:28 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:28777 * 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? /// -- 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.