From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: ACL 6.0 Trial Edition ships with non ANSI reader behavior. Date: 2000/11/08 Message-ID: <3182670917871449@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 691157198 References: <3A0618EA.B29DB165@fisec.com> <3A06E0ED.6016BA05@pindar.com> <3A07D26A.4B4EF01C@pindar.com> <8kqh0tsagfvji7p7p7rnodq3ep3fghv2qo@4ax.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 973682193 345 195.0.192.66 (8 Nov 2000 11:16:33 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Nov 2000 11:16:33 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Kevin Layer -> Kent Pitman | You cannot recommend our lisp because we don't distribute an ansi | image, even though it takes a few seconds to make one. This makes | no sense to me at all. It's because it takes a few seconds _extra_ that makes the difference. Again, why can't you just make that image while installing if it's only a few seconds and nothing to it? If this is no big deal, what's the big deal to you that causes you not to do this? I find it hard to believe that you, too, get into a hyper-sensitive defensive mode where the most important thing of all is not to admit to any form of wrong-doing. That's why John is being flamed to crisp. That's why Microsoft gets such a harsh treatment, too. You have to open up and listen to criticism of what you do, even if you think it isn't wrong at first. Otherwise, you're telling people that their views are disregarded by you, and that's not what Franz Inc has been known for, is it? I'm not sure you understand just how much of Franz Inc's credibility is at stake, here, or whether you're comfortable telling the world that the USENET community in comp.lang.lisp makes no difference to you at all. #:Erik -- Does anyone remember where I parked Air Force One? -- George W. Bush