From: mw@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de (Marc Wachowitz)
Subject: Re: Standadised OO Language
Date: 1998/02/14
Date: 1998-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c2mtu$r4h$1@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de> (raw)
"Howard W. LUDWIG" <howard.w.ludwig@lmco.com> wrote:
> [Thus, Lisp has the dubious distinction of being one of the few
> languages for which both an ANSI standard and an ISO standard exist
> but they never have matched
> nor does there seem to be any attempt to harmonize them.]
Actually "Lisp" is a family of languages, with considerable differences;
except for the similarity of names, the above is like wondering why there
are so many differences between e.g. Oberon-2, Modula-3 and Ada, since
after all they do have many similarities (sometimes called "Pascal-like").
If one looks closer, one sees that this is intentionally so, since their
design principles/purposes differ.
There's an ANSI standard for "Common Lisp", an ISO standard for "ISLisp",
and an IEEE standard for Scheme (another dialect, not "object-oriented",
though some will argue that objects are poor man's replacement for first-
class function closures and flexibility ;-) and there are quite a few
non-standardized Lisp dialects (for details, see comp.lang.lisp and/or
comp.lang.scheme).
-- Marc Wachowitz <mw@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de>
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1998-02-14 0:00 Marc Wachowitz [this message]
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1998-02-12 0:00 Standadised OO Language Matthew Daniel
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Mark Bennison
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1998-02-12 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1998-02-15 0:00 ` Dennis Reimer
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