Subject: Re: Competent programmers (was Re: is Lisp used in text parsing and processing tasks?)
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 13 Nov 2002 21:44:48 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3246212688662838@naggum.no>

* Joe Marshall
| If there were no vet in the nearby area that specialized in the kind of
| pet that I had, then I'd prefer one that felt comfortable with all
| animals in the same family or order to one that felt that cats differed
| so much from dogs as to be incomprehensible.

  And then there are people who do not consider emergencies the proper
  focus of all their planning, philosophies, and ethics.

-- 
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.