Subject: Re: Your introduction to Lisp... From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:12:52 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3227634772405546@naggum.net> * Michael Livshin | I wonder whether employing L*rry W*ll might have something to do with | this. maybe not. According my off-the-record inside information, it has very much to do with the psychotic hatred L*rry W*ll has for Lisp, but it is precisely Scheme that he has such phenomenal problems with, and then he thinks that the whole family of languages that uses parentheses is similarly evil, like a good old southern racist who has met one bad black guy. Common Lisp does _not_ suffer from the same problems that Scheme does, and it is such a different language that nothing anybody know about Scheme should be presumed to apply to Common Lisp without checking thoroughly that it actually does. This is lost on people who have invested too much in their own culture to be able to think anything valuable can come from any other. /// -- 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