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		brudgers on Aug 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Introduction to Condition Handling for Non-Lisp... A possible benefit of conditions in Common Lisp is more than 25 years worth of implementation experience and full documentation of how the system is structured. Extensive literature about the language is a defining feature of Lisp. Conditionals as detailed in Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node312.html#S...

jahewson on Aug 31, 2012 [–]

Hmm, the same argument could be made of GOTOs in FORTRAN.

brudgers on Aug 31, 2012 | [–]

GOTO's use in Fortran has continued to be deprecated for several decades.

One might say that they are not Fortrany in the way that conditionals are Lispy.

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