Subject: Re: free lisp compilers? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/09/06 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3145614659255002@naggum.no> * Friedrich Dominicus | I don't think that people choose their favourite language blindly. But I | expect of course a bit bias in a group which deals with that language. | This hold for any group I know. You hardly will find someone in | comp.lang.eiffel who would say Eiffel is a bad language. well, you find of people here who think Lisp is a bad language, and it's a problem that they can't leave Lisp alone, but have to post lots of inappropriate drivel. I think you're mistaking a language newsgroup for an .advocacy newsgroup, but that may be easy to explain: c.l.l.advocacy doesn't exist, so some people think this is where they should do that kind of stuff, but it is very seldom that you see people talk about such things until somebody comes along and makes incorrect or unsupported negative claims about Lisp. since this happens with alarming frequency, you might be confused about the newsgroup dynamics. #:Erik -- save the children: just say NO to sex with pro-lifers