Subject: Re: PART TWO: winning industrial-use of lisp:  Re: Norvig's latest paper  on Lisp
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 01:24:14 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3233697854039566@naggum.net>

* Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
| "Lisp programmers do not want a compiler telling them what they can or
| cannot do."

  "Lisp programmers want to instruct the compiler what it can and cannot do,
  not vice versa."

| I think that is why them/they "feels good" to me when for some reason a
| simple rewrite like that won't do.

  I think I shall have to scratch third person personal pronouns entirely.

  Eller enda bedre, jeg kan bare skrive på norsk, så slipper vi alt tullet.
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