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> "Simply beautiful", "Distraction-free computing", "Everything at your fingertips", "completely redesigned for GNOME 3", "And much, much more", ... This page reads much like a cor…

> And the only way you can ever know which one you'll like best is to live there and go native. Would be nice if we could learn from others' experiences to help us make a better de…

This discussion seems to focus on the plain spartan Scheme standard, when -- comparing to CL -- it should focus on an implementation that contains standard-ish libraries as well. A…

Would be useful if, in chapter 1, section "Lisp is a huge language", the author mentioned approx how many pages of CLtL is devoted specifically to the core of the Language. Compari…

> ... but no-one can give me any logical reason why this is the case. If you search the c.l.s archives, you can find the various reasons. > I wish Scheme implementors would stop dr…

BeOS was amazing. It simply smoked the competition. It was sleek, functional, good-looking, fun to program for, and had blistering speed (remember it playing 6 different videos eac…

It actually makes very little sense for men to get married (in the USA, anyway) these days. It's simply far too easy for women to 1. become "unhappy", 2. get a no-fault divorce, 3.…

This article skips a very important aspect of these subjects: can they choose a topic and learn it inside and out and not forget it? For example, if they were interested in, say, b…