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From: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw)
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Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave?
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Date: 18 Jan 91 13:01:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: gateley@rice.edu's message of 17 Jan 91 22:33:02 GMT

>>>>> On 17 Jan 91 22:33:02 GMT, gateley@rice.edu (John Gateley) said:

> By choosing an appropriate set of primitives, you can get a small core
> library with the property that the majority of functions in the CL
> library will call only members of the core library (or the core
> library plus a small set of others). This gives you the needed
> untanglement.

And as well as this it is relatively easy to disentangle the language
at a coarser level: leave CLOS, the new loop macro and various other
big chunks of CL mentioned in ClTL2 out of the core of CL.  In fact I
would be fairly surprised & disappointed if CL implemtations did *not*
do this!

--tim
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