From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 11 17: 4:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC4914D4E for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 17:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA27223; Wed, 12 May 1999 09:34:41 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA73379; Wed, 12 May 1999 09:34:41 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:34:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Ladavac Marino , "'Matt Curtin'" , paul@originative.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: LISP (was: [Re: Request For Better Communications]) Message-ID: <19990512093441.C65965@freebie.lemis.com> References: <59341.926459850@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from unknown@riverstyx.net on Tue, May 11, 1999 at 03:06:25PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 11 May 1999 at 15:06:25 -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >>> [ML] Larry Wall: "Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal >>> with nail clippings thrown in." >> >> This from the creator of PERL? Give me a break! That's like Hitler >> criticizing Mussolini for being a dictator. :) > > Hey, Perl's a damn nice language to look at -- Lisp is so remarkably dry > and distasteful. What have you ever done in LISP? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message