From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: What I want from my Common Lisp vendor and the Common Lisp community References: <3208226254834485@naggum.net> <867kvke4iz.fsf@gondolin.local.net> <3208254606019619@naggum.net> <1f4c5c5c.0108311044.2399e124@posting.google.com> <1f4c5c5c.0108312034.1b1e140a@posting.google.com> <1f4c5c5c.0109011022.72a56a2b@posting.google.com> <1f4c5c5c.0109012324.43d24c7@posting.google.com> <3208404998010473@naggum.net> <873d65dff4.fsf@xeno.localhost> <3208423584060174@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3208441298306194@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 17:41:39 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 999452499 193.90.207.245 (Sun, 02 Sep 2001 19:41:39 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 19:41:39 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:15392 * Deepak Goel > Any pointers, anyone? http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html A large number of strongly negative comments about Common Lisp that I can see absolutely no reason for. He has obviously made up his mind not to like Common Lisp regardless of what can be done with it to accomodate his needs. Like most language re-designers, he needs a new language instead of working within an existing one. This is a pretty silly mistake, and not a credit to his thinking. ///