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From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: BETA and X-Windows (was: Re: LISP and X-Windows)
Date: 14 Sep 1994 08:48:15 -0500
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References: <34pog5$lss@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <34t9k3$2g5@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <356ghb$m5c@belfort.daimi.aau.dk>
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Keywords: beta, lisp, clim, clx, ew, clio, clue, garnet

In article <356ghb$m5c@belfort.daimi.aau.dk>,
Jacob Seligmann <jacobse@daimi.aau.dk> wrote:
>AwEnv(# do (&label(# init:: (# do 'Hello world' -> label #) #)[]).init #)

Why do all these new languages people come up with always end up looking
like someone decided Lisp was too readable and added a handful of TECO and
a splash of Forth to the mix?

Is there any reason Beta couldn't have followed Lisp here and striven to keep
the syntax clean and simple?

(I have the same reaction to people who go gung-ho with Common Lisp macros)
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