Subject: Re: why we aren't using lisp (was New to Lisp)
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/06/22
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3139062933653574@naggum.no>

* Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com>
| Nothing you say here is inconsistent with what I said other than the
| hint that a right is lost in the process of not asserting that right.

  um, no such hint was intended, but I think that if you cannot in any way
  experience a difference between two things, they are the same.  in this
  case, a right never asserted/invoked and no right at all.  if you want to
  insist that the right _may_ be asserted if things change, I could just as
  well argue that politicians may change which rights may be challenged in
  court.  incidentally, that latter, scary thought is probably the worst
  way in which not asserting a right may cause it to be lost...

#:Erik
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