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Date:Mon Jan 11 08:41:31 1993 
Subject:Re: lvars and standards (was: Re: List and Vector Syntax) 
From:Chris Dollin 
Volume-ID:930111.02 

In article ... ianr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian Rogers) writes:

   kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) writes:
   >
   > I can't speak for GLOW, but that *isn't* why I designed and (proto) 
   > implemented Pepper.

   But, as far as I know, you're a Pop fan Chris. So if there'd been a subset
   would you have used that instead of inventing Pepper?

If Pop had been available for the Arc (I'm afraid the other platforms 
mentioned hold little interest for me :-), that would have been a 
serious disincentive for building Pepper, that's true. But I designed
Pepper for several reasons, including doing a rational reconstruction 
of Pop's syntax (as witness the recent discussions about the list and
vector syntax) and amusing myself with ideas about efficient compilation
on RISC-style architectures. Although the first would be possible inside
Pop's framework, the second was not.

Note also that abortive Pepper development started on a BBC Model B....
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