Subject: Re: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:50:32 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3213183030880149@naggum.net> * Pierre R. Mai | If that seems like too much trouble to go to for the encyclopedia in | question (which it may well might be), then I would suggest that the term | is not suitable for inclusion in their encyclopedia, and should hence be | dropped. Considering the large number of computer-releated entries in this volume, a lot more than I have found in any other encyclopedia of comparable size (I went ahead and bought it :), they have made a significant effort to fill the need of third-millennium collegiate users. I think this bodes well for an updated entry in a future edition, and I frankly do not quite understand the depressingly defeatist attitude of those who think there is no use -- a long journey starts with the first step, and if we can get at least one modern reference work get it right, maybe others will follow in the years to come. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -- Richard Hamming