From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: LISP format (happy to read) References: <604dab8.0111230328.602f3907@posting.google.com> <3215523442017539@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3215546657396591@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:24:19 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1006557859 193.71.66.49 (Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:24:19 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:24:19 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:20857 * michael wolf | I can't answer that in the general case (maybe it's a case of relating | what's new to what you know to an unhappy extreme), but the case of | people using Lisp and leaving )s in places more or less analogous to | }s in C is probably due to poor instruction. Speaking of poor instruction, most people seem to learn by copying examples these days. I wonder why they have this urge to override the examples they copy in certain ways. I attribute this to a misguided notion that "I know enough now", but maybe there is something else going on that causes people to stop listening to advice. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- Carrying a Swiss Army pocket knife in Oslo, Norway, is a criminal offense.