Re: How Common Lisp sucks



Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In article <87irp30xjj.fsf@xxxxxxx>, Bill Atkins <NOatkinwSPAM@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

I view this whole situation as somewhat analogous to the state of
Linux.

Except that Linux has a process for managing change, which IMO
contributes significantly to its success.

rg

If you are referring to the kernel proper, then yes. But if you are
referring to the operating system created by a distro, then there is
no central control except the distro's.

--

"...and when, another time, I discovered that he considered not
unworthy of reflection in one of those mirrors of absolute truth which
were his writings a remark similar to one which I had had occasion to
make about our friend M. Legrandin, ...then it was suddenly revealed
to me that my own humble existence and the realms of the true were
less widely separated than I had supposed, that at certain points they
actually collided, and in my newfound confidence and joy, I had wept
upon his printed page as in the arms of a long-lost father."
.



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