Re: The pervasiveness of DEFVAR and the Lisp curse

RG <rNOSPAMon@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Indeed he would have. I do not wish to speak ill of the dead, but
there is one thing you and Erik have in common: he was often wrong on
points of fact.

FWIW I disagree with this. While obviously not infallible, Erik Naggum
was unusually often correct on points of fact.

s/often/sometimes/g

Do you have some examples?

Yes. But if you rally want to dive into that briar patch contact me
privately.

I think it's very bad taste to make a statement like yours publicly and
then only offer to substantiate it privately.

I think it would be worse taste to publicly castigate someone who is
no longer here to defend himself.

I refer to Erik's usenet archive often. It will be good to know what
portion of it should be ignored due to factual inaccuracy. You've cast a
cloud of doubt over the entire body of work, and you can clear up that
cloud with specifics.

Zach
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