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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Lisp advocacy
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 14:54:21 GMT
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In article <34n1kp$56d@news.doit.wisc.edu> STEB@MACC.WISC.EDU (STEB) writes:
>In <778955109snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> cyber_surfer said: 

>> When I see a complaint here about Lisp's lack of popularity, 

What complaints?  I don't complain about Lisp's "lack of
popularity", and I've posted most of the "pro-Lisp" messages.

>The reason this rather dull thread refuses to die is simple enough: the c
>familiy of languages and the lisp familiy each require vastly differing world
>views in order to effectivly cast the appropriate incantations in them. 

So far as I'm concerned, BTW, there are perfectly good reasons to
prefer C to Lisp and this whole discussion has nothing to do with
whether Lisp is better than C or vice versa (for such comparisons
make little sense).

Some people either have mistaken ideas about Lisp or else post
articles that will reinforce mistaken ideas.  I think it's
entirely reasonable to want comp.lang.lisp, at least, to
contain the truth about Lisp.

If you want a new newsgroup, have it be comp.lang.lisp.flames
or alt.lang.lisp.sucks.sucks.sucks in which those who think it's
really important to let everyone know how bad they think "Lisp"
is for various applications can post whatever they like.

-- jd
