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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
(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.

-- 
Cheers,                                        The Rhythm is around me,
                                               The Rhythm has control.
Ray Blaak                                      The Rhythm is inside me,
rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net                    The Rhythm has my soul.