From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: ACL 6.0 Trial Edition ships with non ANSI reader behavior. Date: 2000/11/11 Message-ID: <3182957090890974@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 692467187 References: <3182371042747250@naggum.net> <3A04CA75.96A92BE8@fisec.com> <7n1k0t0re21u0udcuci0vauvdo4hptqqrq@4ax.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 973969094 8412 195.0.192.66 (11 Nov 2000 18:58:14 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Nov 2000 18:58:14 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen | Sure. One should, in business negotiations, ideally behave as the | counterpart is a mad criminal. In real life, that's a mighty | difficult standard to live up to. Most people don't have brains that | work that way. But that is why we have lawyers. Some people do not understand that the need for lawyers is just like the need for plumbers -- if you do not call on them in time, you can get into very serious problems -- but few are prepared to understand _when_ the need for lawyers arise. It is in my view unwise to deal with a counterpart as if he might be a criminal -- then you are yourself outside the realm of the law because the law is not your common ground. Same with following specifications and standards. #:Erik -- ALGORITHM: a procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation. ALGOREISM: a procedure for solving an electoral problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation.