From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: "Misunderstanding of the lambda calculus"
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:47:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <droes3$5mf$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1F3zql-0000ly-Ft@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> As you can see, practically all meanings involve surviving into the
> present time. So I stand by my point that "archaic" and "dead" are
> not synonymous.
>
> Archaic does not imply "dead", but it does imply "not very much
> alive". Anyway, the relevant point is "archaic" is a smear term.
Emacs Lisp is better described as "venerable".
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-31 19:47 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <E1F3FdP-0002xe-OW@monty-python.gnu.org>
2006-01-29 17:51 ` "Misunderstanding of the lambda calculus" Jonathan Yavner
2006-01-29 18:32 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-30 18:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-30 19:28 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-31 18:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-31 19:47 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2006-01-31 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-02-01 19:38 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-31 21:57 ` David Kastrup
2006-02-01 8:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-02-01 8:52 ` David Kastrup
2006-02-01 10:40 ` Miles Bader
2006-02-01 15:01 ` Jonathan Yavner
2006-02-01 19:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-29 5:42 Chong Yidong
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