From ... Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uio.no!Norway.EU.net!127.0.0.1!nobody From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.arch Subject: Re: Could CDR-coding be on the way back? Date: 15 Dec 2000 11:52:39 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; gsm: +47 93 256 360; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3185869959483668@naggum.net> References: <4k89cns4o.fsf@beta.franz.com> <90s9m6$1i3g$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> <4aea2iwyp.fsf@beta.franz.com> <913qji$jce$1@news.btv.ibm.com> <41yveih3p.fsf@beta.franz.com> <916etp$ore@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <4elzd5e2i.fsf@beta.franz.com> <91886h$skj@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <91bova$dfo@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 976882622 4507 195.0.192.66 (15 Dec 2000 12:17:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Dec 2000 12:17:02 GMT mail-copies-to: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.lisp:5293 comp.arch:6312 * plakal@nospam-cs.wisc.edu | Or the uniformity and simplicity of the data model (everything is a list)? It would be helpful if you could explain why you believe this "everything is a list" part to be true and how you came to believe it. (Hint: It has actually _never_ been true, and it mystifies Lisp people that so many people who come to Lisp hold this myth. If we could only track it down and find ways to replace it with something less false...) #:Erik -- The United States of America, soon a Bush league world power. Yeee-haw!