From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: some stuff about the 2002 International Lisp Conference in SF Date: 10 Nov 2002 18:37:02 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3245942222394778@naggum.no> References: <_hMy9.1126$Aq5.112540@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <4wunnhj3b.fsf@beta.franz.com> <4wunmbjul.fsf@beta.franz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1036953422 888 129.240.65.201 (10 Nov 2002 18:37:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Nov 2002 18:37:02 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:46197 * Andre van Meulebrouck | You are very CL-centric! I am very Scheme centric. People need to be made aware of this fact. | > I don't know estorery; I assume you mean esoterica. What esoterica are | > we pondering? Specifically? | | Typo: esotery. Is there no limit to your arrogance? Look up the word "esoterica", if you even own a dictionary. Or use www.merriam-webster.com | Right now Javascript is like ersatz LISP; but it's good enough. Close | enough. Maybe and even possibly true for Scheme. By your own admission, you do not know Common Lisp, so even you should be able to understand that it is not true for Common Lisp. Confusing Common Lisp and Scheme is permissible /once/ in a human life. -- 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.