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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: standardization (Re: Lisp versus C++ for AI. software)
Date: 1996/10/07
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[Tim Bradshaw]

|   Obvious I/O type things that CL is missing are random access to files

I must have missed something.  Is not `file-position' random access?

|   (of course they might be very hard to standardise...)

`file-position' was already present in CLtL1 in 1984.

#\Erik
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