From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Common LISP: The Next Generation Date: 1996/09/02 Message-ID: <3050650242890806@arcana.naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 177963315 sender: erik@arcana.naggum.no references: <841563547snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> <50e478$36e@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313; http://www.naggum.no newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.scheme [Richard A. O'Keefe] | (By the way, how come the people who say "hello world is too big, | so Lisp is bad" aren't off trashing Java?) because prior to this (tantalizing oversimplification of a non-) argument, there was a conclusion looking for an argument to support it. the same conclusion does not apply to Java, therefore the argument is no longer relevant. #\Erik -- those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it