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> > I'd really not want to work with any of them, though.

> Why so? Imagine automatic checks for 1-letter variable names, or missing
> method comments... Those routine things we have to do manually anyway.

InterLISP-D did that. It automatically corrected typos as well, it was
called the "DWIM" feature -- Do What I Mean. The problem was that it was
very good at dealing with the things Teitelman left out or typoed, but
if you weren't Teitelman...

Quaxity quuxity,
Teitelman's InterLISP
Has a DWIM feature that's
Really a screw;
MacLISP has evident
Superiority,
Letting its customer
Mean what he do.

		-- The Great QUUX, 1976

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