OT: when was C.L.L. officially opened?

[Marco Antoniotti]

Messages says it all. I am curious for a calculation I am making...

All the best

MA

[Barry Margolin]

In article <295f8a24-3949-48e0...@googlegroups.com>,

I can't remember it not existing, and I've been on Usenet for about 30
years.

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[Zach Beane]

Marco Antoniotti <mar...@gmail.com> writes:

> Messages says it all. I am curious for a calculation I am making...
>
> All the best

net.lang.lisp began on March 28, 1982, and was renamed comp.lang.lisp in
November, 1986. http://lars.nocrew.org/lisp-on-usenet.html has links.

Zach

[Marco Antoniotti]

Thanks.

Let's see. At this rate the WJ-bot should run out of old message towards October. :) Bets are open.

Cheers
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MA

[Duane Rettig]

On May 24, 5:06 am, Marco Antoniotti <marc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:26:48 PM UTC+2, Zach Beane wrote:

> > Marco Antoniotti <marc...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > Messages says it all.  I am curious for a calculation I am making...
>
> > > All the best
>
> > net.lang.lisp began on March 28, 1982, and was renamed comp.lang.lisp in

> > November, 1986.http://lars.nocrew.org/lisp-on-usenet.htmlhas links.

>
> > Zach
>
> Thanks.
>
> Let's see.  At this rate the WJ-bot should run out of old message towards October.  :)  Bets are open.

Ah, so this is the real topic of this thread! Well, that's like
saying that TV reruns will run out at a particular time, and will thus
stop. What happens when a station has played through all of its old
material? [It starts over!] There are two reasons why such a station
might continue this ad infinitum: first, it gets paid to be on the
air, and second, it has nothing better to offer.

In this case "payment" is attention. My bet is that it doesn't stop
at least until you are no longer his fan (I know you'll object to
this, but who answers him most on this NG?) Trolls only go away after
they get tired of not being listened to. And it might not stop even
then, because he obviously is obsessively anti Common Lisp, but the
attention you give him certainly doesn't help to discourage him. (and
in case you wonder if I'm giving him attention - I'm not; it is you
I'm giving attention to, as one whom I hope is reasonable and who will
respond well to my critique).

As retaliation, post some good Common Lisp code, and ignore the crap
rewrites that come afterward. Anyone is free to write an algorithm in
any language they choose; perhaps real side-by-side comparisons will
expose the rewrites as ugly or obtuse.

Duane

[Mirko Vukovic]

I am afraid the optimism is misplaced. Initially, he was posting Ruby code. Now he switched to Racket. We can expect him to move to some other language once he is done with Racket.

The bets should be, which is that other language? Maybe C++ with closures and lambdas?

Mirko

[kodifik]

On 24 mayo, 23:16, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vuko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am afraid the optimism is misplaced.  Initially, he was posting Ruby code.  Now he switched to Racket.  We can expect him to move to some other language once he is done with Racket.
>
> The bets should be, which is that other language?  Maybe C++ with closures and lambdas?

My bet: C#

[Marco Antoniotti]

Ok Duane, got the hint. But it is just too much fun :)

Cheers
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MA

[Espen Vestre]

Duane Rettig <du...@franz.com> writes:

> Trolls only go away after they get tired of not being listened to.

When I worked for an internet provider many years ago, we had one very
tiresome troll as a customer - he caused us a lot of trouble (in terms
of abuse mail). We had this fantasy that we would set up a special NNTP
server only for him, which received a full NNTP feed but never fed any
of his postings back (while just a fantasy, it would have been
technically quite easy to do).

;)
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[Marco Antoniotti]

Let's introduce it to WHITESPACE. It will be easier to read. :)

MA