Subject: Re: distinction? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: 2000/12/03 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3184845254046912@naggum.net> * "Frankque" <frankque@infinet.net> | I know Scheme is a dialect of Lisp. The Lisp that Scheme is a "dialect" of is akin to the Indo-European that both English and Swahili could be described as "dialects" of. These "dialects" have diverged so much it is now useless to think of the Lisp of which Scheme was supposedly a dialect as something that still exists. The Lisp community continued to evolve after Scheme split off to go their own way. Scheme is in my view much closer to a dialect of Algol with some Lisp heritage. #:Erik -- "When you are having a bad day and it seems like everybody is trying to piss you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle." -- Unknown