Subject: Re: Difference between LISP and C++ From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 03 Nov 2002 03:45:26 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3245283926666146@naggum.no> * Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> | Probably because some people can't sepll, and sometimes mispellings | can enter the language through authoritative authors that use | different spellings... But if you look up these words, you find that "villein" is benign and "villain" is malign. When the benign intent is intended, dictionaries redirect from "villain" to "villein". There is no redirect back from "villein" to "villain", as often happens with close spellings, such as with "therefore" and "therefor". Something clearly happened to make these two forms of the same word take different paths. That is their different history. Do you deny this? (BTW, I already covered the spelling case.) -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.