I have sat here and wondered over a longish time why Lisp is dying a slow
death and yet ST-80 holds, at least, steady. This is, I think, because it
is like getting a frikking tooth pulled to get an answer out of anyone
other than Barry or a certain former member of harlequin. _Why_ is it so
hard to get an honest answer out of the lisp list when I _know_ that any
question I have about ST-80 or Squeak will get an answer from the person
responsible in a matter of hours? John M, Allen Kay, Dan Ingals, etc -
Well, it really doesn't matter does it? This is why, ultimately, I stopped
trying to build a free interpreter for Medley (Inter-)Lisp; Squeak fulfills
each and every little thing that Lisp could hope to. And I know that
anything I want to know _will_ come up in our list and it _will_ be
answered... even if that answer is "I don't know."

More than anyone else here, this message is to you, Erik, because you are
the day to day expression of everything that is wrong with C.L.L.