Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bloom-beacon!wesommer From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (Bill Sommerfeld) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Atomic Objects and Identity (was Re: Evaluating "Object-Oriented" Progra) Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 90 23:20:20 GMT References: <2740@tukki.jyu.fi> <1990Jan31.052750.22507@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Distribution: comp Organization: None. Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: moss@takahe.cs.umass.edu's message of 1 Feb 90 14:59:03 GMT "Two things are `equal' if they're the same color". "Two things are `eq' if, when you paint one, the other changes color." - Gerry Sussman, explaining the difference between "eq" and "equal" in LISP. -- Henry Spencer is so much of a | Bill Sommerfeld at MIT/Project Athena minimalist that I often forget | sommerfeld@mit.edu he's there - anonymous |