Subject: Re: Your introduction to Lisp... From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:23:06 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3227455385474677@naggum.net> * "Pierpaolo BERNARDI" <pierpaolo_bernardi@hotmail.com> | Well, the front cover of the manual says: | | "PC Scheme | a simple, modern Lisp" Why are the Scheme people authoritative on whether Scheme is a Lisp? If you ask almost any person if they are honest, they will answer "yes", the dishonest probably more often than the honest. If you want a correct and useful answer, you have to find out what they mean: Do they simply answer the question honestly, or do they give an answer that they think will cause you to act in a particularly beneficial way towards them? All these jokes about used car salesmen who call themselves "Honest Joe" and _still_ people buy it when someone who clearly has something to gain from being a Lisp says they are? So why is nobody _else_ authoritative on whether Scheme is a Lisp? I think "Your introductoin to Scheme" should go in comp.lang.scheme. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. Post with compassion: http://home.chello.no/~xyzzy/kitten.jpg