Re: Where do these guys come from?

From: Peter Seibel (peter_at_javamonkey.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:52:56 GMT

Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de> writes:

> Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com> wrote:
>
>> Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com> writes:
>>
>>> From an article "Extensible Programming for the 21st Century" from
>>> ACM Queue by Gregory V. Wilson, University of Toronto.
>>
>> Forgot the URL:
>>
>> <http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly
>> &pid=247&page=1>
>
> the rest of the article is missing, the full version is better:
>
> http://www.third-bit.com/~gvwilson/xmlprog.html
>
> Some quote from the full version:
>
> | Scheme proves by example that everything described in this article
> | could have been done twenty years ago, and could be done today without
> | XML.

Ah, I recognize that--this came up a few months ago. I thought it was
*another* one. Just the same guy getting published in a new forum.
Sorry.

-Peter 

-- 
Peter Seibel                                      peter@javamonkey.com
         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

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