From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!btnet-peer0!btnet-peer!btnet!diablo.theplanet.net!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: CLISP `executables' (idiot question) References: <3212349202022646@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3212390183906463@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:36:24 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1003401384 193.90.205.153 (Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:36:24 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:36:24 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:18100 * Thomas F. Burdick | I don't know about Sam Steingold, but I recommended the clisp-list | because he might get a better answer there. I also answered his | question, because, well, other people might care, too. There is a small difference between bug reports and other clearly implementation-specific problems on the one hand and a request for a feature that probably would have public interest on the other. A robotic "use the mailing list" answer to all CLISP questions splits the community for no good reason and the competition that CLISP needs to improve will disappear. People who agree too much get too many weird ideas and fail to weed them out. Take IF*, for instance -- it would most probably not have survived in a larger group of people. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate.