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Lots of misunderstandings in these comments, something that in itself shows of difficult communication is. What Witkowski is saying is that communication, as we think about the con…

To clarify: sure, I'm wrong in the sense that there is a normal way if we by 'normal' mean 'most people do it like this'. Unfortunately, 'normal' almost always also carries a meani…

> Your questions instead sound like you are doubting him. Respectfully, I disagree: _to you_, the "questions instead sound like you are doubting him". Maybe it even sounds that way…

In my opinion, it is Common Lisp that is famous for carefully chosen design decisions and nerdy attention to details, given the situation and the constraints (Darpa saying 'fix the…

As far as I can remember, that's a relatively recent trend though (dubbing childrens' programmes), at least in Sweden. I can't remember any being dubbed until possibly in the late …

Indeed. "The dominant file systems at the time the design was done were TOPS-10, TENEX, TOPS-20, VAX VMS, AT&T Unix, MIT Multics, MIT ITS, not to mention a bunch of mainframe OS's.…

The plan for Common Lisp originally was to have a "core" and a standard library. From Daniel Weinreb's blog post "Complaints I’m Seeing About Common Lisp": It’s just too big. Actua…

Because PRINT also exists, and doesn't do the same thing PRINC does. http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw61/CLHS/Body/f_wr_p...

> ... which of course has no equivalent in Clojure, Scheme, or really any other language I can think of. Python, for example: def cross(xs, ys): return [[x, y] for y in ys for x in…

Actually at least Sweden was involved in slave trading, out of a slave fort in Ghana called Carolusborg. I'm pretty sure there was one or a few short lived attempts at colonies as …

I agree, it's hardly representative of the whole country, which is why I referred to the photo essay as a viewpoint rather than claiming that (the whole of) Afghanistan was a moder…

Here's one viewpoint: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a...