From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!ossa.telenet-ops.be!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: is lisp a general purpose lang? References: <3226640788256644@naggum.net> <3226677331820617@naggum.net> <876639wkwh.fsf@blitz.comp.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3226836154782491@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 15:22:18 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1017847338 193.71.199.50 (Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:22:18 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:22:18 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:30957 * Julian Stecklina | Ok, you can read this way, but it destroys all the pleasure of | reading. Reading is some kind of work then. And you have to | concentrate to really understand what you have read. When you started to learn to read, it was all like this. It was pretty hard work by adult standard, but then you got the hang of it and it became effortless. The same goes for reading faster. Indeed, all thinking skills are very hard work when you are not training for them. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.