Re: the necessity of Lisp's Objects?

Den Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:26:05 +0100 skrev Rainer Joswig:

In article
<4b91e167-0570-4f38-abd1-c5b5bdfb56ce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Xah Lee <xah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
3. The syntax is a bit quirky. In particular, a mathematica programer
sees that sometimes list is written as $B!H(B(list a b c)$B!I
(B,
but sometimes there's this oddity $B!H(B'(a b c)$B!I(B (which
is
syntactically equivalent to $B!H(B(quote a b c)$B!I(B

I wouldn't mind or notice if you just ignored Xah Lee as is just and
proper, but your newsreader is broken. It doesn't set Content-type:
properly, yet it quotes !ASCII characters as is, and Xah happens to use
ISO-2022-JP and quote characters 「」, so your reader is sending malformed
posts. Please fix that.

Cheers,
Maciej
.

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