From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: why we aren't using lisp (was New to Lisp) Date: 1999/06/22 Message-ID: <3139062933653574@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 492599244 References: <80C621FFC2DFD2119FFF00805FA7C54F02B5D068@exchange1.hhmi.org> <80C621FFC2DFD2119FFF00805FA7C54F02C767F4@exchange1.hhmi.org> <87zp1y1xtf.fsf@home.ivm.de> <87aetyf8gc.fsf@2xtreme.net> <87g13q10mu.fsf@home.ivm.de> <87wvx1e0cb.fsf@2xtreme.net> <87u2s5dvst.fsf@2xtreme.net> <3138903595355863@naggum.no> <87d7yqtfy8.fsf@2xtreme.net> <87n1xtczy6.fsf@orion.dent.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> <3138976885172325@naggum.no> <3139035688203899@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Kent M Pitman | Nothing you say here is inconsistent with what I said other than the | hint that a right is lost in the process of not asserting that right. um, no such hint was intended, but I think that if you cannot in any way experience a difference between two things, they are the same. in this case, a right never asserted/invoked and no right at all. if you want to insist that the right _may_ be asserted if things change, I could just as well argue that politicians may change which rights may be challenged in court. incidentally, that latter, scary thought is probably the worst way in which not asserting a right may cause it to be lost... #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century