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"Richard  Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net> writes:

> also know some C++.   My class is a multi-language class in
> which students are learning Ada, C++, Lisp, and a little bit

Please, please tell me you are not telling them that Lisp is a
functional language which only has recursion for looping and only has
symbols and lists for data representation.

And please say you never use examples like:

(setq foo '(a b c))


/Jon

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'jay' - a n t h o n y at romeo/november/charley com