From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Promoting CL Was: 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> <87itf1a2fh.fsf_-_@piracy.red-bean.com> <99fb3972.0109021504.bba92d0@posting.google.com> <3208475381413624@naggum.net> <3208495354884218@naggum.net> <3208515900839780@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3208546146329081@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 22:49:06 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 999557346 193.90.207.51 (Tue, 04 Sep 2001 00:49:06 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 00:49:06 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:15509 * John Foderaro > In other words you want vendors to mindlessly echo back your enthusiasm. Wrong. _Everybody_ else understood something else by what I said. > You don't want to hear what the vendor may have learned through years of > experience about what could potentially be a problem for you using the > language in your project. You don't want the truth. You can't handle > the truth. If you believe this idiotic crap was uttered by anyone but yourself, you are quite simply insane, John Foderaro, and nothing can be done about you. ///