Subject: Re: ACL 6.0 Trial Edition ships with non ANSI reader behavior. From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: 2000/11/12 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3183048663153512@naggum.net> * David Bakhash <cadet@alum.mit.edu> | And where did I ever say -- or even _imply_ -- that anyone wanted to | do business with me? This is a misguided assumption. I'm looking at | this in the following way, and I hope that this helps... You missed the point. Why should anyone _care_ who you want to do business with if they don't consider the reverse point, that somebody has to do business with you, too, for business to be transacted? If you make a point about your willingness to do business with someone, it behooves you to say something about your _ability_ to do same. I fail to see your "cut-throat" example as relevant, too, because I have no idea what you mean by "cut-throat" practices. You aren't a customer of theirs and have made a point out of that, so I can't quite see how you feel you didn't have a choice. It is not as if people do not have choices in general, either. <script language="javascript1.2"><!-- | stay that way, and I want to deal with individuals as well as | companies that care about the same thing. <script language="javascript1.3"><!-- stop to consider or recognize when your "idealism" (if that is indeed what it is) is no longer a viable basis for your actions. #:Erik -- ALGORITHM: a procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation. ALGOREISM: a procedure for solving an electoral problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation.