From: Ilias Lazaridis Date: 2005-02-19T23:19:45+09:00 Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Nitro, a Ruby Based WebFramework Christian Neukirchen wrote: > Ilias Lazaridis writes: [...] >>>If you dismiss a language due the lack of referencing an influent >>>person >> >>John McCarthy: inventor/discoverer of LISP (and thus the "Grand >>Father" of all LISP dialects). > > I know that very well. > > Also, without Adam and Eve, Lisp (and therefore Scheme) would not > have been possible... and they aren't mentioned either! exaggeration. [conversation abort condition] >>>in the standard, you'll never get anywere. >> >>I understand your thought, which is false. > > AFAICS, you *are* not getting anywere. If you spend all the time [...] - (irrelevant comments) you don't know my goals. thus you cannot judge. >>I sense that I'm close to my goal. > > Yeah, you already pissed off a lot of people on this list. this is not my goal. [don't ask for them, I'll not answer] >>Respect to the Roots. >>- >> >>Neither the LISP-to-SCHEME-transformers (Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald >>Jay Sussman) nor the SCHEME community have this. > > You must be joking. no. " The report gives a de ning description of the program- ming language Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. " source: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/msg/01aeb2489438816f > Did you ever read the Lambda papers? no. The shameless overstatement above (accepted by the 'inventors' and the community was enouth. >>SCHEME [the language & the surrounding systems] cannot procude the >>next generation software systems. > > Then come up with something better. I've not the time. First I try to build it using existing systems. .. -- http://lazaridis.com