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From: Markus E Leypold
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Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net> writes:

> Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
>> Did you mean "reimplementing... Lisp, right?"
>> or "reimplementing... Lisp right."?
>
> Well, both I suppose, although I imagine I would do it differently from you.
>
> I used to be a shiny eyed Ada true believer. These days I find myself seduced
> by the dynamic side of things.
>
> The main thing I would do with Lisp is make it have optional type declarations

That's why you MUST use Ocaml :-). No, joke, I do not know what is the
important thing to you in Lisp. OCaml has no macros etc. But the
typing makes things vastly more manageable.

> (Common Lisp sort of has them; Dylan has them, but what's a Dylan? And if only
> it could make up it's mind about looking like a lisp vs a pascal).

:-)

>
> I really do like C# these days, actually. You can see the Ada influence on
> it. It's a pity about the politics of Microsoft, though.


Regards -- Markus