From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Lambda calculus and it relation to LISP Date: 5 Oct 2002 09:15:08 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <9e8ebeb2.0210041920.2e480123@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033835079 7130 127.0.0.1 (5 Oct 2002 16:24:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 16:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xrjK-0001qr-00 for ; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 18:24:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xrfx-0002co-00; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 12:21:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.lang.lisp,sci.math,sci.logic Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.102.64.150 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1033834508 31013 127.0.0.1 (5 Oct 2002 16:15:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Oct 2002 16:15:08 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105751 comp.lang.lisp:95659 sci.math:549599 sci.logic:61556 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2298 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2298 gnuist007@hotmail.com (gnuist) wrote in message news:<9e8ebeb2.0210041920.2e480123@posting.google.com>... > I read the following quote in a book on emacs and similar > things in a book on lisp. I see you dedicated more than half of your article to expressing your anticipation of a rebuke for your sociopathic behavior from me. Well, here it is. > This is an interdisciplinary topic and cross-posted. > Please beware of this and be undaunted in intellectual > work just in case some rude individual jumps in and threatens > the discussion on this thread. This comment is in view > of a sad incident by a similar character on a valid > interdisciplinary thread on comp.lang.lisp and gnu.emacs.help. > Previously this individual had also posted unbecoming > comments to Professor Fateman of UC Berkeley who is > actually a very nice and helpful individual in my experience > about two years ago from a phone conversation with me. You are actually quite eloquent; that is to say, remarkably so for yet another a piece of trolling excrement hiding behind a throwaway e-mail address (which probably doesn't even exist). Presumably, you are intelligent enough to realize that if one types ``lambda calculus'' into a search engine such as Google, it will come up with quote a number of useful hits. The last time I performed this very search, I recall finding a page with a very good and quite detailed introduction to lambda calculus which could serve as a tutorial, and which quite clearly established the relationship between lambda calculus and the origins of functional programming. Though such information is no substitute for debate, absorbing it constitutes the minimum required effort for genuine participation in a debate---but of course, that is the last thing that you want. > I think that it would be exciting and intellectually > satisfying to know an answer to this question for many > of us in the math/logic/lisp/emacs community. And for those of you in the trolling community, it is undoubtedly exciting and emotionally satisfying to obtain *any* kind of response. Well, there it is, so enjoy your temporary high.