From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.213.112.26!newsfeed1.ulv.nextra.no!nextra.com!news01.chello.no!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: PART TWO: winning industrial-use of lisp: Re: Norvig's latest paper on Lis References: <8hUQ8.2148$zN4.1003716@news2.news.adelphia.net> <20020622021801.16009.00000440@mb-bd.aol.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3233752775379726@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 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: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:39:35 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.no X-Trace: news01.chello.no 1024763975 212.186.234.171 (Sat, 22 Jun 2002 18:39:35 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 18:39:35 MET DST X-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 18:39:35 MET DST (news01.chello.no) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:35517 * Dvd Avins > What he would be supposed to say now is "One small step for a man, one giant > leap for humanity". You still get the "man" sylable in there, so the second > part is sonorous after saying the first, but many fewer people would perceive > it as sexist. And rightly so, IMO. * Terje Slettebø | You also loose the pattern man - mankind. "mankind" and "humanity" means the | same thing, anyway (note the "man" in "human" and "humanity"). There's | nothing sexist about it. One small step for a human, one giant leap for humanity. -- Guide to non-spammers: If you want to send me a business proposal, please be specific and do not put "business proposal" in the Subject header. If it is urgent, do not use the word "urgent". If you need an immediate answer, give me a reason, do not shout "for your immediate attention". Thank you.