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From: Alexey Goldin <goldin@spot.uchicago.edu>
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Jose Paredes <jparedes@vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> 
> Okay, so some of us like C and some of us like LISP. We each have our
> own reasons and experiences to back up our decision. Can we please,
> please stop posting about it? I hate to "kill" a certain thread because
> I feel that sometimes I might miss something that makes me a little
> wiser, but I also hate the way this thread has gone. This is basically a
> "na na na nanana, my language is better than yours" thread and is
> begging to get a little sickening.
>    No one, of course, has to stop posting, but please drop it. The whole
> newsgroup is getting cluttered up with this.
>    What I have learned from this newsgroup is that C programmers are
> going to program in C and that LISP programmers are going to program in
> LISP. That's all. Nothing else.
> 
> THankyouverymuch,
> Jose

It is not so bad, actually. Before I followed flamewar just like this
I had no idea that numerical code in Lisp may be as efficient as in C
and that Lisp can do a lot of other thing I never suspected before.
There are probably a lot of lurkers that will learn some new things
about Lisp that they would never learn otherwise and give it a try.

Of course it would help if exchange would be less emotional. 


