Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:38:56 -0500 Message-ID: <50819E43.4DFA@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:38:59 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Very new programmer References: <282576538372343494.163409pjb-informatimago.com@news.individual.net> <1308093105372356978.253240pjb-informatimago.com@news.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.220.235 X-Trace: sv3-TXf/U9ySsTNU9yHvXfYXD7JksnceIz2tNYmDsgacCK3a02kl/PDudYA/6xhZHaTv6QkGZg0+kodlfNd!eieIOy7JdhJu8YPne5HJ8nzwswiFYtLK7zHHQzNJrbx6jVQEJO4mdhmAMGfAnwWd9X719U6hhmdi!eFx/0Bp30UQ= 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 X-Original-Bytes: 1547 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:2363 Rui Maciel wrote: > > Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > > > Lisp (or scheme) is like Esperanto. > And you forgot to mention that Lisp dialects > are rarely used to develop professional applications, > and demand for lisp programmers is virtually inexistent. I think that that was implied by the comparison of Lisp to Esperanto. -- pete