Sujet : Re: Google Groups ending support for Usenet
De : alan (at) *nospam* csail.mit.edu (Alan Bawden)
Groupes : comp.lang.lispDate : 27. May 2024, 23:58:19
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Organisation : ITS Preservation Society
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Cor <
cornews@clsnet.nl> writes:
Some entity, AKA "B. Pym" <
No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org>,
wrote this mindboggling stuff:
(selectively-snipped-or-not-p)
> On 12/16/2023,
cor@clsnet.nl wrote:
>
>> Any marginally usable programming language approaches an ill
>> defined barely usable re-implementation of half of common-lisp
>
> The good news is, it's not Lisp that sucks, but Common Lisp.
> --- Paul Graham
Just to set the record straight;
This is not My line.
I quoted it but don't know who the originator of that remmark is.
What you quoted is so close to "Greenspun's tenth rule" (see
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule>), that I think
Phil Greenspun probably deserves the credit.
- Alan