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Re: Scheme acceptance [no flames]

To: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Subject: Re: Scheme acceptance [no flames]
From: Richard Cobbe <cobbe@directlink.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:48:01 -0600 (CST)
Cc: "John R. Hall" <overcode@lokigames.com>, plt-scheme@fast.cs.utah.edu
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Lo, on Monday, November 6, Eli Barzilay did write:

> On Nov  6, John R. Hall wrote:
> > Well, Perl is a hell of string processing language. Scheme really
> > isn't.
> 
> String processing is only a matter of library support - the rest is a
> *lot* of syntax hacks that are almost the ugliest I have ever seen.
                                 ~~~~~~

Almost?!  Dare I even ask what you'd consider the ugliest?

Richard

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