Re: demonic problem descriptions

From: Rahul Jain (rjain_at_nyct.net)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:23:07 -0500

Cameron MacKinnon <cmackin+nn@clearspot.net> writes:

> True... That's what c.l.l is for! The original poster got helpful code
> and suggestions, but also, disturbingly, comments to the effect that
> yes, Lisp is a programmable programming language, but you shouldn't
> program it THAT way.

No, he is claiming that CL is wrongly specified. We are claiming that it
is specified in a way that makes sense for the majority of its users. 

-- 
Rahul Jain
rjain@nyct.net
Professional Software Developer, Amateur Quantum Mechanicist

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