From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!ossa.telenet-ops.be!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Your introduction to Lisp... References: <63637457.0204040727.798c0862@posting.google.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3227611851844666@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:50:52 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1018623052 193.71.199.50 (Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:50:52 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:50:52 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:31514 * Dorai Sitaram | All novice problems should be so easily self-correctable. Would that that were true. The problem is that they are not. | I think a much more pervasive and uncorrectable malaise is intended when | the bad influence of Scheme is cited. Somehow, a Scheme freak believes that Scheme is "right" and whatever else he has to do to make things work is "wrong", and therefore never learns what is right in any other language that does not very forcefully prove him fundamentally wrong. It is much harder to make someone believe they are wrong when they are right some of the time than none of the time. /// -- 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. Post with compassion: http://home.chello.no/~xyzzy/kitten.jpg