From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news.netway.at!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nnum.kpnqwest.net!EU.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Why I didn't chose LISP References: <3CF27F72.6000003@bigfoot.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3231526577875284@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:16:28 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1022537788 193.71.199.50 (Tue, 28 May 2002 00:16:28 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 00:16:28 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:33998 * Johann Höchtl | Last year I thought it would be a good idea to learn a new programming | language. But which one? It looks like you would be happiest with Visual Basic or Delphi. | My first impression was: every language comes with a GUI, not so CLISP. My first impression is that you need to understand that a language is defined by its specification, not by its implementations (and that so-called languages that have only one implementation are not languages to begin with, they are just programming tools). However, I consider you a lost cause from the way your entire apporach is so well documented. | I could continue. Please don't. Thank you for you sharing your sob story. We all care deeply. Goodbye. -- 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. 70 percent of American adults do not understand the scientific process.