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Re: Bob for embedded systems.
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- Subject: Re: Bob for embedded systems.
- From: address@hidden (Sashank Varma)
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:30:01 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Vanderbilt University usenet news server
- References: <3C35B37C.23F12812@kfunigraz.ac.at> <pr7c3ucjj01jvq4tbmmohri2n9mqp7mie4@4ax.com>
- Xref: traf.lcs.mit.edu comp.lang.lisp:78807 comp.lang.scheme:38573 comp.lang.dylan:13923 comp.lang.functional:29783
In article <pr7c3ucjj01jvq4tbmmohri2n9mqp7mie4@4ax.com>, israel r t
<israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote:
>There is an interesting article by David Betz (author of XLisp and
>XScheme ) on Bob a language for embedded systems at
>http://www.ddjembedded.com/resources/articles/2002/0202g/0202g.htm
What an unfortunate name. Wasn't Microsoft's reviled 'Bob'
partly implemented in Lisp? This bit of guilt-by-association
has not helped Lisp's name in the larger community.
Perhaps Mr. Betz will consider changing the name of his
system to 'Robert', 'Robby', 'Billy-Bob', etc.