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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by muuh-gnu on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @01:50AM (#5666684)
When are you going to give up the capitalized acronym LISP? It has the same archaic vibe and makes you want to code in it as much as in FORTRAN. Just call it Lisp.
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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by ogdoad on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @02:28PM (#5669813)
The language name is actually "lisp", it's the enlightened converts' enthusiasm that causes them to shout it from the treetops. One would guess.
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