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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:45:13 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> The Cakewalk Application Language (CAL) was very
>> Lispy.
>
> Was it like Autolisp, in making you suffer the Lisp syntax without the 
> cool stuff like AST-based macros and lexical binding? In short, the worst 
> of both worlds?

Dunno. I suspect Greg Hendershott used basic Lisp syntax because it was easy to
code.

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