From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.213.112.26!newsfeed1.ulv.nextra.no!nextra.com!news01.chello.no!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: one small function References: <3c5dcdc1$0$246$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3c5e4689$0$62858$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3c61470e$0$62901$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3222057684108542@naggum.net> <87zo2j8kcr.fsf@tunes.org> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3222297522251820@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 02:38:40 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.no X-Trace: news01.chello.no 1013308720 212.186.234.171 (Sun, 10 Feb 2002 03:38:40 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 03:38:40 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:26133 * Brian P Templeton | Although I also dislike Scheme strongly, I don't agree with your | assertion that someone who knows Scheme has no hope of learning CL - I | know at least one person who is a counterexample to this. Oh, but anomalies do not disprove a general assertion, nor do they make good material for generalization to begin with. If a person has been trained in some other language before being trained in Scheme, they have much better chances of not being brainwashed by Scheme, because there is something there to begin with. I should perhaps clarify that I mostly consider the problem of "Scheme as the first programming language". /// 2002-02-09 -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.