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From: Steve Tynor
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 13:31

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Bill "Ada - the One True Language" Wolfe writes:
>From ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning):
>    I take it the Lisp community does not value portability...
>    what happens when you want to take code from one manufacturer's
>    Lisp and compile it on a different system?

Get your head out of your, ahem, ARM - learn about the world outside Ada.
Common Lisp is quite standardized, thank you.  We port code between various
machines regularly with very little difficulty (user interface issues mostly -
you can't blame CL for that!)

>    Also: how about exception handling?

Read about it. Lookup unwind-protect, catch and throw. Lisp has had exception
handling for years (decades).

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    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu

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