From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!bnewspeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed.r-kom.de!newsfeed.completel.de!news.netway.at!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nnum.kpnqwest.net!EU.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Un-Great (Newbie) Expectations [was Re: Why is this code broken?] References: <2hvg8sskp6.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <3D03EC84.933FCD7B@dls.net> <3D03F3A5.E00083B4@dls.net> <3D040264.388E4A5C@dls.net> <3D04963B.98307CB7@dls.net> <3D04C1F7.D20F5169@nyc.rr.com> <873cvv3pr9.fsf@cs.uga.edu> <3232819785007234@naggum.net> <873cvtwjn7.fsf@noetbook.telent.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3232870303524784@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:31:49 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1023881509 193.71.199.50 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:31:49 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:31:49 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:34776 * Daniel Barlow | The clueless newbie is probably running the code interpreted anyway, | so there's some slack there to negotiate with. But for interpreted code, this problem is even more intractable. -- 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. 70 percent of American adults do not understand the scientific process.