From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: self-hosting gc References: <87elj5i2rf.fsf@becket.becket.net> <87elj5glx5.fsf@becket.becket.net> <87g03kd1m5.fsf@baguette.webspeed.dk> <5lzo1nhvnh.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <3C8821C9.3080608@cam.ac.uk> <2hwuwnjgri.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <3224587620423566@naggum.net> <871yev7yl4.fsf@becket.becket.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3224602690894312@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: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 18:58:01 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1015613881 193.71.199.50 (Fri, 08 Mar 2002 19:58:01 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 19:58:01 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:28165 * Thomas Bushnell, BSG | And since the popular operating systems *do* have those memory protection | features, it's not possible for a creep to get in and destroy a system, | right? Wrong, idiot. Please take a remedial course in argumentation and logic and figure out the difference between a necessary and a sufficient condition. You seem not to be the only one who might need to understand this point around here, but it is still tremendously annoying when some snotty bastard who fails to grasp that difference tries to make a fool out of others because of _his_ lack of understanding. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.