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Subject: Re: Lisp advocacy (Was Re: another take on "C is faster than lisp")
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In article <STEVE.94Sep8101735@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov>
           steve@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov "Steven Rezsutek" writes:

> But, I agree.  There's no real point to any of it, except perhaps
> a venting of steam and a bit of a diversion from the duldrums of 
> day to day work.

There are times when I'm inclined to stop reading any newsgroup,
no matter how interested it can be at other times. This is one of
the reasons. Even using a killfile, I still have to read the headers.
 
> I'll say no more (but I did enjoy reading all this for a while :-)

How do you feel about an advocacy newsgroup? Either one specifically
for Lisp, or one single newsgroup for all those people without a life
who feel that _they_ can make a different by debating with someone else
who feels just as strongly about their favourite language?

We can see the same behaviour for operating systems, hence the advocacy
newsgroups for OS/2, Windows, and perhaps others, but I can't remember.
I never read them, as I have far better things to do! I've noticed that
opinions rarely if ever change as a result of debating on UseNet, or
any other place. Let's give these people a "ghetto" or "playpen", so
they won't have to disturb the rest of us.

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