From: Harley Davis
Subject: Re: Lisp,LIsp,LISp,LISP...
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1990 15:53:31 +0000
Message-ID: <6821@ilog.UUCP>

 > >ANSI Common Lisp has, by my reckoning, increased the number of
 > >unique syntactical constructs from 26 to 31 (29 special forms, the
 > >form for macro calls, and the form for function calls).
 > 
 > You forget variables and self-evaluating forms.

Not to mention the sublanguages for format, eval-when, #+, and type
combination.  (There must be others too.)

-- Harley

From: Jeff Dalton
Subject: Re: Lisp,LIsp,LISp,LISP...
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1990 18:30:18 +0000
Message-ID: <1656@skye.ed.ac.uk>

In article <····@ilog.UUCP> ·····@ilog.UUCP (Harley Davis) writes:
 >
 > > >ANSI Common Lisp has, by my reckoning, increased the number of
 > > >unique syntactical constructs from 26 to 31 (29 special forms, the
 > > >form for macro calls, and the form for function calls).
 > > 
 > > You forget variables and self-evaluating forms.
 >
 >Not to mention the sublanguages for format, eval-when, #+, and type
 >combination.  (There must be others too.)

Note, though, that when you count them all the original Common Lisp
looks bigger, but the ANSI (really X3J13 -- there isn't an ANSI std
yet) additions look less significant (as percent increase, say).