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[dave at cca.org]

jp at celestrion.net writes:

>Now, once you get past that, Scheme does a lot of things more easily than
>C does:
>  * Bignums (required as parts of R5RS)
>  * Arbitrarily-large data structures (with automatic garbage collection)
>  * On-the-fly function composition (functions are lists)
>  * Functional encapsulation (unnamed functions within functions)
>  * Processing data structures that are recursive in nature (ex: XML)

If I recall correctly, some desktop publishing program (Framemaker?)
stored documents as lisp.

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