From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc3.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: newbie asks: why CL rather than scheme? References: <3c21e019_5@news.newsgroups.com> <9vsv9m$mra$1@news.gte.com> <3217991270540462@naggum.net> <3c244d3b_10@news.newsgroups.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3218006006904773@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:33:28 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1009017208 193.71.66.49 (Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:33:28 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:33:28 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:22913 * "Janos Blazi" | (BTW: I saw a photograph of you where you are *laughing*! Hard to | believe to judge from your postings.) Do you have a picture of yourself thinking? That could make me laugh. If you really want the irony to be complete, have you next of kin send me a picture of your body cut up into a thousands bleeding pieces arranged to spell out "cogito ergo sum". Just thinking about it makes me laugh. /// -- 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.