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From: fnwlr1@acad3.alaska.edu (RUTHERFORD WALTER L)
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Subject: Re: The powerlessness of Lisp
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Date: 26 Mar 91 00:35:13 GMT
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In article <21189:Mar2521:55:0691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes...

> 
>I understand: It's a ``nuisance'' when someone refuses to accept the
>dogma of current computer science.
   [examples of the truth a'la Dan Bernstein deleted to save space]
>someone tells the truth as he sees it, then yes, folks, I guess I'm
>Ozan's sort of nuisance.
> 

Only when the truth as you see it includes statements like:

  >Doug, you have made nothing of yourself in this newsgroup but a nuisance
  >for at least the last few months.                                     


>and what should appear in future languages. I still wish it were
>possible to start a conversation here about pointers and arrays without
>having it degenerate into a series of religious arguments. It's not.
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Would you please come up with a better phrase for the types of
"conversations" which erupt here?  You'll give religion a bad name.  :-)


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