Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)

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Subject: Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
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* "Michael T. Richter" <mtr@igs.net>
| <tone style="sarcasm">
| A very cogent rebuttal.  I have now seen the error of my ways.  You
| are a truly fiendish disputante for you have undone an opinion based
| upon years of effort with a simple, two-syllable word.
| </tone>

  Let's _quote_ from some of Michael T. Richter's eloquence on display
  for all the world to see (well, that part of the world which thinks
  Dylan is all the world, anyway):

  In <6Qi85.18115$ZI2.545683@news1.rdc1.on.wave.home.com>, Michael
  T. Richter <mtr@ottawa.com>, presumably the same _gentleman_, writes:

  "Hey fuckhead"

  Granted, it's two words and three syllables, which could imply that
  Michael T. Richter is anywhere between 50% and 100% more cogent than
  Dave Bakhash's "bogus", but since the first word is but a noise word
  to get attention, it isn't worth anything at all, which means we're
  dealing with a neanderthal who is very envious of humans.   Worse,
  yet, "bogus" is _way_ more cogent than "fuckhead", but then again,
  Dave is a Lisp user and Michael is a Dylan user, and we know what
  kind of people _they_ are: ...

| Yes, Lisp has its advantages.  Readability isn't one of them.

  ... hostile, illiterate bums who hate their parens, as this new
  evidence of eloquence and cogency shows so clearly.

#:Erik
-- 
  If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.

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