Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:32:45 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Resources to learn common lisp? References: <111ne5o$vsm3$3@dont-email.me> <111pbk6$36pi7$1@dont-email.me> <87qzlqgiyx.fsf@gmail.com> <878q7y10kh.fsf@nightsong.com> <111t1lb$4bes$1@dont-email.me> <87v7b1zsty.fsf@nightsong.com> <111t8dn$6k5d$1@dont-email.me> <87qzlpythv.fsf@nightsong.com> <111urdf$ltvk$3@dont-email.me> <87echozwvv.fsf@nightsong.com> <112cd7l$no6b$3@dont-email.me> <112npgm$9f37$1@dont-email.me> <112oc0c$3cs6m$2@paganini.bofh.team> <112ot30$lbj2$1@dont-email.me> <112p3rr$3eqo2$2@paganini.bofh.team> <112q7gf$127hd$1@dont-email.me> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:32:44 -0400 Message-ID: <874ihhtrb7.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GrJPJweU539cCP3MxLFO8B11eNc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 33 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-oNDs5J5JUjPyvV20782J1hvxKvPkc3u4r9otNRsIg2itM0G54bcpHVND/y03tDjWCBBC+IuRNaY9GHi!c7/AI8bXLig6ip4xpQsgGARr8ZueCOs1VjMTcKbUKxMubsE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.lisp:61241 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > tfb wrote or quoted: >>Imagine, now, if someone from one of these groups of people turned up in a >>forum where people from the other group discuss things and said "you can't >>use 'LW' like that: you have to use our definition. > > Anyone can just make up definitions for words whenever they want. > But if people actually wanna talk to each other, they gotta get > on the same page about what the heavy-hitting terms mean. [ ... ] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119 > In pretty much every language - like C++, C#, Rust, or Kotlin - > operator overloading is static. Python is the only one doing its > own thing and keeping it dynamic. not really. in garnet (a non-CLOS object system) all action menssages are dynamic, allowing the objects to be where they are. > Anyway, here's how > > ISO/IEC 2382-15 > "Information Technology — Vocabulary", > Second edition / 1998 I am sure python the programming languages is much better suited for people's needs. you must remeber programmers are very stubborn; it does not help to hear that their work of 20 years is wrong.