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| Alan Bawden to Kaz Kylheku |
| Re: catch and throw, was Is multi-level |
| 29 Mar 14 02:44:24 |
From: alan@scooby-doo.csail.mit.edu
Kaz Kylheku writes:
> PL/I seems to have been influential in the design of Common Lisp conditions,
> right down to the terminology such as "conditions" being "signaled".
The current Common Lisp condition system is descended from the original
Lisp Machine Lisp condition system that was designed by guys who had
programmed in PL/I on Multics -- they were quite consciously borrowing
the terminology.
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Alan Bawden
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