Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.lisp Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!uknet!festival!edcogsci!jeff From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp Message-ID: Sender: usenet@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Nntp-Posting-Host: bute.aiai.ed.ac.uk Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland References: <780156066snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 19:21:03 GMT Lines: 27 Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:114 comp.lang.lisp:13501 In article <780156066snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk writes: >In article jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk "Jeff Dalton" writes: > >> I hope we don't add a misleading "Lisp advocate" stereotype >> to the already misleading "Lisp" stereotype. > >Is that a reference to the thread about a newsgroup for Lisp advocacy? >I'm not sure, but this looks like you've misunderstood the issue, >which was about the need, or not, for a comp.lang.lisp.advocacy >newsgroup, and not the nature and/or worth of Lisp advocacy, which >is another matter. My point was merely that at the moment, there's >no choice, except to add such advocacy threads to a killfile, which >is not ideal. I thought my article was reasonably clear in context. Maybe not. Anyway, I was responding to an article that said such things as "the usual lisp advocate response". >I hope I've misunderstood your comment, in which case I apologise. >However, I'm not aware of any stereotype being the problem. Perhaps >you're refering to some other thread, perhaps in another newsgroup, >but I don't know. Why not assume I'm talking about something in *this* thread, namely: Comparison: Beta - Lisp? -- jeff