Re: I dream of a LISP that...

On 16 May 2005 10:29:05 -0700, <chain_lube@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I vote that Chain-Lube, AKA "Ranger of the Silver Forest" [1] gets
troll-of-the-month award. I wouldn't regard any of the claims he's
made as accurately representing reality, since a Google search will
provide a different set of claims.

I believe he has played the blockhead perfectly, muddying his
responses and drawing others into the thread. It will be interesting
to see if this post actually survives. He surely has outdistanced the
recent competition.


> It happens that I sometimes deride Python and its users.

Seems like they would be more fun for you.


> However, people can tell me what they want and can go into debating
> over details and semantics. Yes I know it is imprinted into stone that
> one of the first motivations for Scheme languages was a standard as
> tiny as possible. However, any Scheme implementation goes far beyond
> that. I do not see where the problem lies as long as people are aware

Scheme is very old, please point out any Scheme implementation equally
as old. Or to make it easier on you, point out any surviving from
1984. OK, how about a scheme that is only 10 years old with full
backwards compatibility.


> Schneewittchen

I think your best post was asking a German to speak to another German,
since he was a native speaker. That was a bit out of character eh?


[1] a famous German movie from the time before Lisp. A few other
things, but "vom" doesn't seem to appear in a persons name...

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With sufficient thrust, pigs fly fine.
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