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Think Before You Use a List

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Although Lisp's creator seemed to think that it was for LISt Processing, the astute observer may have noticed that the chapter on list manipulation makes up less that three percent of Common Lisp: the Language II. The language has grown since Lisp 1.5--new data types supersede lists for many purposes.



Peter Van Eynde 2001-03-08