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!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: lisp "philosophy" ? References: Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3225442035680806@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:07:03 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1016453223 193.71.199.50 (Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:07:03 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:07:03 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:29363 * "Software Scavenger" > Here is what Common Lisp is best at: A good Common Lisp programmer > can develop and maintain sophisticated software faster and better than > a typical team of 100 programmers using a typical programming > language. * "Coby Beck" | Posting something like the above "one Lisper can do the work of 100 | typical language programmers" just looks like fanaticism and from a | public relations POV is not helpful. You may read it that way, but he actually qualified both the (Common) Lisp programmer and the team of programmers and the language in a way that makes the meaning quite different from your interpretation. /// -- 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.