From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc3.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: On nil qua false [was: Re: On conditionals] References: <3215299538573186@naggum.net> <3215481014063125@naggum.net> <3BFDF255.3153E96F@nyc.rr.com> <87u1vggt5i.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org> <9u0n7n$pds$2@rznews2.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> <87adx7gbcf.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org> <861yijw8hi.fsf@gondolin.local.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3215955602157647@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:00:03 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1006966803 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:00:03 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:00:03 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:21207 * Bruce Hoult | What *you* have missed, is that some of those exact same brightest minds | to ever touch a keyboard went from Common Lisp to design a new language | and did a few things differently the second time around. But they designed a new language and set up a new community for it! They did _not_ hang around in the Common Lisp community and whine about it. | Are you saying that you're brighter than Moon? Please think about what you are _actually_ saying. /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.