From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 23:26:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5CB37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:26:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 5DA823E92; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:27:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAE2BAAD; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:27:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:27:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Jim Bryant Cc: FreeBSD Fanatic , Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS In-Reply-To: <3B971081.9080804@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20010906022205.A82682-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jim Bryant wrote: >I still think that Scheme has far less proficient programmers than LISP. What? You think there are far less proficient accountants than there are mathematicians? But more people get Accounting degrees daily than Mathematics degrees, and besides that it's an easier subset of Math. If you didn't realize it, Scheme is nothing more than a subset of the common LISP. It was created especially for situations like this where you want LISP's power and flexibility but not that kitchen sink that comes with most common LISP. >BTW: In LISP, *EVERYTHING* is data. LISP was executing data as code and writing self-replicating programs around 1951 or 1952. The cognitive leap that leads every LISPer to his understanding of AI programming is a very exciting thing. I wish I had a picture of my face the day I figured it out. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message