From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: newbie asks: why CL rather than scheme? (Dr N. and Mr N) References: <3c1f950a$1_2@news.newsgroups.com> <3217820934092842@naggum.net> <3c21d98a_6@news.newsgroups.com> <3217841845867948@naggum.net> <3c21e40c_9@news.newsgroups.com> <3217843778743828@naggum.net> <3c21edee_2@news.newsgroups.com> <3217885980617662@naggum.net> <3c231fa7$1_1@news.newsgroups.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3217941086959475@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 25 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, 21 Dec 2001 16:31:28 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1008952288 193.71.66.49 (Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:31:28 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:31:28 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:22884 * "Janos Blazi" | What you are mistaking for servility is objectivity Nope. | Actually I am a very balanced person and I pay reference where reference | is due. I am so sure you are the best judge of that. | And I try to see you objectively as well. I appreciate Dr Naggum who is | a fine CS expert and I laugh about and at the same time feel sorry for | Mr Naggum who has lost control after drinking some strange potion. This is not "objectivity" in any known human language on planet earth. Please get abducted again and consult their intergalactic dictionary before you return. Better yet, do not return, teach them Scheme so they never get around to implement a sufficiently "pure" invation strategy. /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.