In article <01bc4117$d256fa20$03d3c9d0@wjh_dell_133.dazsi.com>,
Bill House <bhouse@dazsi.com> wrote:
>Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote in article
><5i37u3$s0a@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>...
>>
>> Well, his paper is targetted at the C/C++/Java crowd. If you said
>> Scheme to them, they'd probably start plotting to overthrow the CEO...
>>
>
>I've thought about this comment and I now realize that we probably owe JO a
>bit of an apology. He did not storm over to comp.lang.scheme and post his
>article. No, JO put his article on his own personal Web page. Geez, I wish
>I had realized that when I opened my big mouth to respond to the post of
>the person who DID storm over and put JO's text into the stronghold of the
>Lisp faithful. Anyway, a person has the right to put anything they want on
>a personal Web page, and nobody, least of all moi, has the right to
>interfere with that.
Let me get this straight: as long as someone *publishes* mistruths or
half-truths to their web page, you have no right to criticize the
mistruth or half-truth? That is an amazing attitude, in my opinion. Once
something is published, it is open to debate and criticism.
Paul Prescod
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