From: davep.n...@davep.org (Dave Pearson)
Subject: Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
Date: 2000/07/05
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On 04 Jul 2000 17:16:26 -0600, vsync <vs...@quadium.net> wrote:
> "Paul F. Dietz" <di...@interaccess.com> writes:
> 
> > Because the result is often easier to understand that the equivalent
> > code without LOOP.
> > 
> > But then I grew up on Interlisp, so maybe it's a cultural thing.
> 
> I think that's true. I learned Lisp from Paul Graham's _ANSI Common Lisp_,
> and he smacks LOOP down pretty hard. I think I would have disliked it
> anyway, though, as my preference is to do things in the way most fitting
> to the language. LOOP just doesn't seem very "Lispy" to me.

I become familiar with CL via the same book. IIRC Graham makes the point
that writing "languages" within CL is a common thing to do, perhaps even a
"Lispy" thing to do. Given that I've always thought that LOOP was *very*
"Lispy".

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