From ... Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!newsrouter.chello.at!news01.chello.no!Norway.EU.net!127.0.0.1!nobody From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: any inspiring literature? Date: 10 Oct 2000 02:32:27 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3180133947979873@naggum.net> References: <3179836737616149@naggum.net> <39E127FD.D10818D6@enterprise.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 971152280 9678 195.0.192.66 (10 Oct 2000 04:31:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Oct 2000 04:31:20 GMT mail-copies-to: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.lisp:2077 * Erik Naggum wrote: | But seriously, I still find Guy Steele's Common Lisp the Language, | 2nd edition, to be a very inspiring book. The humor is just great, | especially if you sit down with the index and look up such entries | as Michelangelo. On the other hand, some people I have shown this to | and explained it to their blank stare, still wouldn't even enjoy it. * Donald Fisk | Ninja turtles IIRC? That would be Michaelangelo, although entertaining, not _inspired_. The aversion to actually go look this up is not inspiring me much, but I'll try again. Look up (as in: get the book) "kludges". #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.