From: Ken Bloom Date: 2009-02-25T00:09:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:54:58 +0000, William James wrote: > Gregory Brown wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon > .... >> > Well if you need to talk about no conceptual advantage and just >> > different unintuitive syntax, you can say the same of Ruby vs. Lisp. >> >> Why are you subscribed to ruby-talk if you hate Ruby so much? Is >> someone forcing you to use it? And if so, how is that our problem. >> >> -greg > > He's harmless. CL (Commode Lord) is so bloated and hideous that only a > religious zealot would use it. (Yeah but (He) (uses (strange syntax))) ((he) (just might convince (some newbie) (to program Ruby) (as though ((it) (were (LISP))))) --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/