On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 09:06:14AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 03:06:26PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 07:57:29AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > > You guys should just use scrotwm ;-)
> >
> > Guess what WM I'm using on my non-{i386,amd64} machines ;-)
> >
> > > Then there is no need to learn another language and you can continue on
> > > lisping ;-)
> >
> > And now let's start a flame war about weak vs. strong typing, and
> > a second one about lazy (non-strict) vs. strict evaluation.
>
> I'll play :-)
>
> C has the right semantics for operating system code.
>
> The rest is magic.
Thus proving Arthur C. Clarke correct again, assuming Marco is
admitting that modern languages are sufficiently advanced technology.
:-).
.... Ken
>
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Kili
> >
> > ps: funny enough, I never used lisp very much. A little bit scheme,
> > but almost no lisp.
> >