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in reply to RFC: A Perlesque Introduction to Haskell, Part One (DRAFT)

Just like people no longer write PERL for Perl, Lisp has been for quite some time the correct way to refer to Lisp, not LISP.

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Re: Lisp (RFC: A Perlesque Introduction to Haskell, Part One (DRAFT))
by Jenda (Abbot) on Jun 26, 2004 at 21:23 UTC

    It ain't short for "Lots of Irritating Silly Parenthesis"? ;-)

    Thanks FoxtrotUniform for the intro. All my comments have already been said by other people so just ++.

    Jenda
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