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Re: Scheme, Lisp, and a Central Future
Surely one of the Lisp wizards here can help me fill in the blanks on this
story:
_____, an American Lisp hacker, was once at some international
conference, and got into a conversation with some Lisp hackers from
_____. He asked them: "Does it bother you that the keywords for most
programming languages are in English?" They replied: "Does it bother
you that the terms used to annotate musical scores are in Italian?"
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"It was when she started defending habeas corpus that things went downhill."
--Robert Jones, VP of California State University, describing how a CSU
commencement speaker was booed off the stage for defending civil rights
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