Subject: Re: Modernizing Common Lisp
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 19:33:27 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <7t-dnUj8P5xKUAPd4p2dnA@speakeasy.net>
Edi Weitz  <edi@agharta.de> wrote:
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| 2. I'm pretty sure that it doesn't make sense to standardize anything
|    until you have a reference implementation which has been in use for
|    some time.
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This is *very* important, as I implied in my "rant" this past Friday.
Standards design by wishful thinking simply doesn't work.


-Rob

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