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Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain to me why all languages don't... by arockwell on Monday December 22, 2008 @01:53AM (#406167)
Isn't scheme a subset of common lisp (at least loosely speaking)?
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Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain to me why all languages don't... by Hexstream on Monday December 22, 2008 @12:14PM (#406570)
For one thing, scheme has continuations, a powerful construct that Common Lisp lacks. But it's true that Common Lisp is generally more "featureful".
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Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain to me why all languages don't... by arockwell on Monday December 22, 2008 @04:45PM (#406924)
That's a feature that scheme has that common lisp doesn't, but is this supported by a new syntax? I think that it is not clear cut what is a syntactical difference versus a difference in the feature set.

edit: I guess what I'm really asking is there someway in lisp to make a construct that would look just like call/cc? If you could then that's just a feature difference, but if you can't I would agree that's a syntactical difference.

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Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain to me why all languages don't... by kragen on Monday December 22, 2008 @03:38AM (#406215)
No, not even close.
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