Subject: Re: Common Lisp, the one true religion! From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 00:26:12 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3209070370905002@naggum.net> * "Stephen Harris" <stephen.p.harris@worldnet.att.net> > I find these discussions similar to which is superior: Mac, Unix or Windows. Really? You do not see the difference between discussing which of three _products_ is better and discussing principles that can be used to determine whether a given set of configurations of hardware and software meets user demands? > I notice the originator of this thread, Richard Krush, was the second > poster in that thread and I think that his perception that there was an > unusual intensity and response to this thread(an extra dimension) > unlikely to be found in other comp.lang.* is correct. Sigh. Religion has passion. Passion alone does not a religion make. Shallow people always find something to bring home. Deep people often come up empty-handed. ///