From: John M. Blasik
Subject: Re: extension languages can be darn small, yet still powerfull
Date: 
Message-ID: <1990Sep9.232052.16066@mlb.semi.harris.com>
In article <····················@cds839.cadence.com> ······@cadence.com (Tim Barnes) writes:
>
>It's also the case that there are a variety of "syntax packages"
>available for Lisp: for example Cadence's Skill(tm) allows the following
>semantically equivalent syntaxes:
>   x = 3*sin( y->z )
>   (setq x (times 3 (sin (getq y z))))
>

Too bad the designers brewed Skill(tm) with an overabunance of
syntatic sugar at the expense of the time honored hops and malt of lisp:

	(cons 1 2) 
*Error* cons: argument #2 should be a list (type template = "gl") - 2

-- john