From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.infostrada.it!newsfeeder.edisontel.com!skynet.be!skynet.be!ossa.telenet-ops.be!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Your introduction to Lisp... References: <63637457.0204040727.798c0862@posting.google.com> <3CB08CFE.97DF9311@enterprise.net> <8F_s8.3733$b62.92168@news1.tin.it> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3227455385474677@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:23:06 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1018466586 193.71.199.50 (Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:23:06 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:23:06 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:31404 * "Pierpaolo BERNARDI" | Well, the front cover of the manual says: | | "PC Scheme | a simple, modern Lisp" Why are the Scheme people authoritative on whether Scheme is a Lisp? If you ask almost any person if they are honest, they will answer "yes", the dishonest probably more often than the honest. If you want a correct and useful answer, you have to find out what they mean: Do they simply answer the question honestly, or do they give an answer that they think will cause you to act in a particularly beneficial way towards them? All these jokes about used car salesmen who call themselves "Honest Joe" and _still_ people buy it when someone who clearly has something to gain from being a Lisp says they are? So why is nobody _else_ authoritative on whether Scheme is a Lisp? I think "Your introductoin to Scheme" should go in comp.lang.scheme. /// -- 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. Post with compassion: http://home.chello.no/~xyzzy/kitten.jpg