From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!mango.news.easynet.net!easynet.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Re: becoming a better programmer Date: 20 Sep 2002 06:08:04 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3241490884936015@naggum.no> References: <3D84EDE2.1080CA8E@acm.org> <3D8A1E08.976F3E8D@enterprise.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1032502086 27032 129.240.64.16 (20 Sep 2002 06:08:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Sep 2002 06:08:06 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:172461 comp.lang.lisp:41345 comp.lang.java.programmer:182735 comp.lang.perl.misc:119870 * Marshall Spight | And again with respect to Lisp, but it has a *terrible* name. Imagine | naming a language after a speech impediment! It may not be as good as naming it after an island or a coffee brand, but seriously, if you would react negatively to (Common) Lisp because of its name, or if you have heard about others who have rejected it before looking at it because of its name, or have ignored it because it did not look like a programming language, I would be very interested to hear about actual cases. -- 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.