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Cross Posters are the highest life form

Name: Anonymous 2015-06-04 13:23

Cross posters are the highest life form.

They are patient, good minded, intelligent, good use of skin, altruistic, moralistic and in a word "great".

What is the purpose of having newsgroups pertaining to a particular genre of binary file if "great" uploads different "greatness" to every single newsgroup.

That has to be the highest form of life because any thinking person would have to admit that it does make sense.

However, cross posters, having a lot of gray matter to work with, probably have completed school, therefore can read and are indeed intelligent and properly understand that concept.

Cross posters are indeed the highest life form.

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Name: Anonymous 2015-08-21 0:24

>>212
Scheme is not a Lisp IMO because of two types of reasons: first,
technical, which have been argued on this group ad nauseam (the
deepest difference there to me is that a scheme program is defined as
a string of characters whereas a CL program is defined as a sequence
of lists of Lisp objects. This may seem pedantic or trivial but a lot
of different design decisions follow from this. It makes Scheme an
infix member of the Algol language family.); but more important,
philosophically. The Scheme community has evolved a set of values at
odds with the spirit of Lisp: the goal for simplicity at the expense
of convenience (compare the concept of CL's $item designators with the
design of convert stuff explicitly like Scheme's exact->inexact), the
goal of only giving basic blocks and letting you assemble stuff
yourself (call/cc isn't a replacement for a worked out exception
system).

To sum it up with a Ritchie quote: "Some languages were meant to get
work done, some were meant to prove a point." I put Lisp in the first
category and Scheme and ML in the second. (See also the reliance on
tail call elimination to be able to prove the point that a looping
construct isn't necessary.)

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