From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: I don't understand Lisp Date: 1998/11/05 Message-ID: <3119297904135739@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 408839350 References: <35fb182d.86050524@news.newsguy.com> <3115018001706846@naggu m.no> <1998Sep18.123342.10768@srs.gov> <36063374.1EEF2B1C@bt-sys.spamblock.bt.co.uk> <3115371273457872@naggum.no> <71svno$2cv$1@spitting-spider.aracnet.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * mikemac@mikemac.com (Mike McDonald) | Is it included in CMUCL? In MacCL? In Harlequin's? Proprietary | solutions to basic functionality do the whole CL community a great | disservice. yeah, verily. if everybody can't have it for free, there should be a law against somebody getting it, _unfairly_. the community above all! you give both communism and laziness a really bad name, Mike. it's good to share innovations and build a strong foundation for oneself and the community one is part of, and it's good to have smart people do hard work so other smart people can do some _different_ hard work, but community welfare and getting away with laziness are _results_, not starting points from which you reduce everything else. incidentally, regular expressions are not part of _that_ many languages, but they are available as libraries from a number of sources, proprietary as well as publically available. and nobody kept you from using a regexp library for C with your Lisp system or even writing your own. but I know why you don't write something for yourself -- it would be proprietary to yourself and it would be a great disservice to the CL community if you just went ahead and created what you need, right? #:Erik -- The Microsoft Dating Program -- where do you want to crash tonight?