Subject: Re: help! absolute beginner
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1998/12/12
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <74torc$2g3li@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Rainer Joswig <joswig@lavielle.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Sometimes I have the feeling I'm living in a beta world.
| Everything now is beta. When do I get final stuff?
| What once was pre-alpha now is beta.
+---------------

Ah, how quickly they forget!  :-{

	"The Rise of Worse Is Better",
	Section 2.1 of "Lisp: Good News / Bad News / How to Win Big"
	by Richard P. Gabriel, 1991.
	http://www.naggum.no/worse-is-better.html

[Note: Despite its pathname, this URL contains all of "Good News/Bad News"...]


-Rob

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