Re: Common Lisp from a Unix perspective - barriers to using CL



Robert Uhl wrote:
Ken Tilton <kentilton@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

We do not need a free Lisp and we do not need Emacs+Slime+ASDF For
Dummies, because noobs do not get that far. They just walk up to the
store window, see the shelves are bare of the libraries they just bolt
together in other languages, and keep on walking.


What's wrong with bolting together libraries? Sure, it's not creating,
but it's a useful activity. Not all are called to be library-writers;
not all are called to be library-users.


Admit it. You guys are deliberately completely misparsing natural language just to see my funny comebacks.

:)

Can somebody help Robert?

kzo

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