Path: utzoo!yunexus!oz
From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LISPMs and UNIX
Message-ID: <1894@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 23:59:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.1894
References: <4922@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development
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In article <4922@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
>
>My View of Reality:
>  o  Unix is what happens when you build an OS around an FS.

Your view for sure. Maybe you should pick up Kernighan & Pike's 
"The Unix Programming Environment" and try that again.

>  o  C is what happens when you build a language around an instruction set.
>     (Or: C is what happens when you write a parser stoned.)

Contrast that with (un)CommonLisp for example. You missed a smiley
here or what ?

>  o  LISPMs are what happen when you design a language for ease of 
>     programming, and design an architecture around that.

Right. Lisp1.5.

>
>> The article that started this off and subsequent comments of "boy I'd miss
>> piping, etc" only emphasize to me how broken people's concept of the right 
>> way to do things can become.
>
>This is my vote for sentence-of-the-month.

Sorry not mine. Obviously because I cannot see the "TRUTH" or "THE RIGHT
WAY" like you or the previous poster can see. Too bad. Oh, btw: when
you two get a chance, do share that "RIGHT WAY" with the rest of the
world, under a DEFUN, for everyone's edification.

oz

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