From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!news-feed.ifi.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: What’s gone wrong with Scheme Macros? Why all the debate? Date: 04 Sep 2002 03:02:51 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3240097371783391@naggum.no> References: <7ed8f64d.0209011823.6c7ceeca@posting.google.com> <7ed8f64d.0209020319.1d5fb809@posting.google.com> <871y8b7jyx.fsf@radish.petrofsky.org> <3D74E9DC.29F6FBB@his.com> <87bs7e8z4d.fsf@snark.piermont.com> <87fzwq79dz.fsf@snark.piermont.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1031108572 23953 129.240.64.16 (4 Sep 2002 03:02:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Sep 2002 03:02:52 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.scheme:13844 comp.lang.lisp:39569 * "Perry E. Metzger" | Perhaps we could have a new discussion about why it is that people | think that religion is more interesting than writing programs. Perhaps people who use Common Lisp and Scheme are already adept at writing programs and no longer have the pathetic little problems that so plague the newer languages and are interested in politics (not religion) just as people who think there is a better way to make a living than wonder how to get a job serving burgers get into law and politics and diplomacy and standards. That you have no better grasp of the higher levels of society than to call it "religion" unfortunately speaks volumes about your own outlook on that which transcends petty problems expressing simple algorithms in languages younger than their practitioners' computers. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.