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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp
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In article <780156066snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk writes:
>In article <CwFqwr.IK2@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> 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
