Subject: Re: why we aren't using lisp (was New to Lisp) From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/06/22 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3139062933653574@naggum.no> * Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com> | Nothing you say here is inconsistent with what I said other than the | hint that a right is lost in the process of not asserting that right. um, no such hint was intended, but I think that if you cannot in any way experience a difference between two things, they are the same. in this case, a right never asserted/invoked and no right at all. if you want to insist that the right _may_ be asserted if things change, I could just as well argue that politicians may change which rights may be challenged in court. incidentally, that latter, scary thought is probably the worst way in which not asserting a right may cause it to be lost... #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century