Subject: Re: Common LISP: The Next Generation
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1996/09/02
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <3050650242890806@arcana.naggum.no>


[Richard A. O'Keefe]

|   (By the way, how come the people who say "hello world is too big,
|   so Lisp is bad" aren't off trashing Java?)

because prior to this (tantalizing oversimplification of a non-) argument,
there was a conclusion looking for an argument to support it.  the same
conclusion does not apply to Java, therefore the argument is no longer
relevant.

#\Erik
-- 
those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it