Marco Antoniotti
11/2/2015 8:14:00 PM
On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 8:23:05 PM UTC+1, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2015-11-02, WJ <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Ken Tilton wrote: (Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:04:02 -0500)
> >
> >> Come on, COBOL is a great language, even has macros (copy ... replacing)
> >> and the worlds greatest case statement, evaluate. We are proud to be its
> >> neightbor.
> >
> > Worshippers of CL (COBOL-Like) are the worst enemies that Lispy
> > languages have ever had.
>
> In what way? Evidence?
>
> Suppose programmers who like CL are complete idiots. In that case, they
> are busy with their CL activities, and don't harm anything else.
>
> The only way CL can be an enemy of "Lispy languages" is if it takes available
> talent away from those languages. But then you can't claim that CL people are
> "rabid monkeys", et cetera.
>
> CL isn't highly popular; it's not being crammed down your throat like
> Java or whatever.
>
> There might have been a brief time in the history of Lisp where that was the
> case; Common Lisp was standardized, or just about, and so some people who were
> paid to do Lisp work, who had their nice dialects going with their own
> innovations, had to conform to CL. That was understandably unfortunate.
>
> Today, you can safely ignore CL if it's not to your taste.
>
> (Obviously, not something you're able to do.)
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