From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia References: <3213041760976232@naggum.net> <87wv1hupul.fsf@orion.bln.pmsf.de> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3213183030880149@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:50:32 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1004194232 193.71.66.49 (Sat, 27 Oct 2001 16:50:32 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 16:50:32 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:18692 * Pierre R. Mai | If that seems like too much trouble to go to for the encyclopedia in | question (which it may well might be), then I would suggest that the term | is not suitable for inclusion in their encyclopedia, and should hence be | dropped. Considering the large number of computer-releated entries in this volume, a lot more than I have found in any other encyclopedia of comparable size (I went ahead and bought it :), they have made a significant effort to fill the need of third-millennium collegiate users. I think this bodes well for an updated entry in a future edition, and I frankly do not quite understand the depressingly defeatist attitude of those who think there is no use -- a long journey starts with the first step, and if we can get at least one modern reference work get it right, maybe others will follow in the years to come. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -- Richard Hamming