From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc1.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Converting a list to a string References: <5b829932.0111270824.71e26d54@posting.google.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3215958628245501@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 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 17:50:29 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1006969829 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:50:29 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:50:29 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:21215 * Tim Bradshaw | incidentally, I wonder why we don't see so many anti-FORMAT rants as | we do anti-LOOP rants? If LOOP is hard to read, what is FORMAT? It is because loop is actually _too_ easy to read and does unexpected things for those who do not understand that it is a formal language. In contrast to this, format is pure magic and not understood by the whiners. /// -- 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.