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Re:Dylan: the harsh realities of the market by calibraxis on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:44AM (#8225762)
> I'm still not sure why there are 80 different ways to loop

Please ignore if you're asking rhetorically. But there are reasons why it was put together in kind of a wild political dash. See: (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/Llmnxk2SYUk/y...) and (http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf)

An evolving, used platform which was (suddenly?) pressured to freeze.

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Re:Dylan: the harsh realities of the market by rtpg on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @01:33AM (#8225842)
I am vaguely aware of how CL came to be, but was unaware of this report. I'll give it a read, thanks.
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