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Hartmann Schaffer  
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 More options Oct 6 2003, 9:28 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: h...@heaven.nirvananet (Hartmann Schaffer)
Date: 6 Oct 2003 21:28:30 -0400
Local: Mon, Oct 6 2003 9:28 pm
Subject: Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
In article <llry2m99....@ccs.neu.edu>,
        Joe Marshall <j...@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> ...
> Freedom, horrible freedom!  It so much harder to think than it is to
> let other people do it for you.

reminds me of an argument an intel guy (probably sales) put forward in
SIGPLAN in praise of the 8086 architecture (shortly after this
abomination was introduced):  he argued that instructions requiring
their operands relieves programmers (and compilers) from the burden of
having to chose registers

> ...

hs

--

ceterum censeo SCO esse delendam


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