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From:
Ovid
Date:
May 10, 2007 04:02
Subject:
Re: LISP module from CPAN
Message ID:
217251.96454.qm@web60812.mail.yahoo.com
--- David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ever since reading "Hackers and Painters"
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596006624/tipjartransactioA
> I've been defending "Perl is a LISP!"  (which is actually quite easy,
> because
> nobody knows what I'm talking about)

And for those who have not read the brilliant rebuttal to the "Hackers
and Painters" article:

  http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

Cheers,
Ovid

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