From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Common Lisp, the one true religion! References: <9nc1vu$6a2ng$1@ID-60069.news.dfncis.de> <3208957436551251@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3209070370905002@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 00:26:12 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1000081572 193.71.66.49 (Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:26:12 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:26:12 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:16019 * "Stephen Harris" > I find these discussions similar to which is superior: Mac, Unix or Windows. Really? You do not see the difference between discussing which of three _products_ is better and discussing principles that can be used to determine whether a given set of configurations of hardware and software meets user demands? > I notice the originator of this thread, Richard Krush, was the second > poster in that thread and I think that his perception that there was an > unusual intensity and response to this thread(an extra dimension) > unlikely to be found in other comp.lang.* is correct. Sigh. Religion has passion. Passion alone does not a religion make. Shallow people always find something to bring home. Deep people often come up empty-handed. ///