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Date:Mon Nov 12 18:33:19 1992 
Subject:Why is POP here? (was Re: help) 
From:Mike Leibensperger 
Volume-ID:921113.13 

In article <1dtvigINNksp@agate.berkeley.edu>
bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:

   POP is a programming language developed in the 1970s in England.
   It combines an Algol-like syntax (statements separated with semicolons
   inside block structures) with Lisp-like semantics (untyped variables,
   lists as data aggregates, etc).

Sounds pretty obscure.  I have to agree with the guy who wondered why
this was a comp. group while BASIC is still an alt. group.

BUT!  Maybe it *is* worth the bandwidth---I once knew a guy who wanted
to combine Algol and Lisp.  He told me...

	<drumroll please!>

....that that's where (defun ...) BEGINs!!!!

	Har har!
	mjl
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