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I certainly agree that lexical scoping is the way to go in general.

But Maxima/Macsyma itself was written in a dynamically scoped Lisp....

            -s

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 15:59, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com>wrote:

> Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
> > I especially like the comment about Sage using Python, "a real
> > programming language".  As if any of the other programming languages are
> > less real than Python.
>
> Well, in the author's defence, I wouldn't want to try to engineer a
> large application with Maxima's scoping rules. That said, there's this
> other language kicking about. 'Lisp', I think it was called...
>
> Rupert
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