Subject: Re: Why is Scheme not a Lisp? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:27:13 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3225043644357719@naggum.net> * Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> | Go ahead and attack Scheme on technical grounds, but dredging up this | kind of nonsense does nobody any favors. Anyone wonder why I get pissed off at the fucking morons who find faults with every goddamn thing I do? TRY LIGHTENING UP, DICKWEED! It was an attempt at light-hearted humor, although it was certainly at the expense of some of the most anal-retentive bunch of stuck-ups I know, who quote chapter and verse at people who argue about their inflammatory, useless desire to included in the Lisp family ever after they left, voluntarily, and who cannot even write well enough to communicate what they mean in simple, unambiguous English. /// -- 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.