Re: Morally equivalent

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2022 at 11:10 AM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Morally equivalent
>
> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
>
> > It is just political nonsense pushed into software.  An introductory
> > textbook for beginning undergraduates is never serious.  And even
> > if it was serious, morality does not work.  Either it is equivalent,
> > or it is not.  There is no morality in it.
>
> I was not familiar with that term (doesn't appear in German) but
> understood the doc perfectly.  OTOH, if the text said
>
>   This is not equivalent to (setf PLACE (cons NEWELT PLACE))
>
> I would not have understood (and it is _not_ equivalent).
>
> Until someone comes with a better wording we should stop the
> Stefan-bashing.  Read it as "equivalent in some sense", and good.  It's
> a text, ok, not a computer program controlling the city traffic.
>
> Michael.

The problem was about the wording, if it turns out Stefan wrote it, then
he is not above anybody else.  The problem is that in some important ways,
things are not precise.  And users do not like that.