On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 06:59:28PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Neither "Scheme" nor "Lisp" is in any way standardized. > > Common Lisp was standartized by ANSI in 80es. I believe > standard was revisited in 1994 and Lisp ot some OO features. > Anyway, document number is ANSI X3.226-1994. Feel free to order > and read
Well, this is true. However, a standard is only a standard if people hold to it. I don't see this with Lisp. I see Common Lisp as Yet Another Lisp, and only because people choose to define it in a document and put ANSI in front doesn't mean much. I admit my wording was misleading, as I didn't want to say that there were no efforts to standardize LISP, or no formalized versions of LISP. However, they are just this. You could say, Common LISP is standardized. > Scheme is also standartized in several reports. They are quite > extensive and allows to create independent compilers/interpreters. > > Scheme is a derivative of Lisp, and Lisp itself is splittered in dozens of > dialects, > nearly every AI institute developing it's own version. > > that's true > > There is no such thing as "THE Lisp". > > yes, there is and that's why it is called Common Lisp > ------ Well, right. Common Lisp is standardized. Lisp isn't. Thanks, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09