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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Arguing for a nilp function and where to put it
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 22:56:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1pjWq9-0004xq-Kc@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8icssy1.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Roland Winkler on Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:48:22 -0500)

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  > But (info "(eintr) Strange Names") goes on:

  >   Besides being obsolete, the phrases have been completely irrelevant
  >   for more than 25 years to anyone thinking about Lisp.

I think that statement is too strong.  The origins of things may cease
to be crucial, but that doesn't make them "completely irrelevant" to
the present.

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-04  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-01  5:37 Arguing for a nilp function and where to put it Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2023-04-01  6:01 ` tomas
2023-04-01  6:07 ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-01  6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01  7:09   ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2023-04-02 21:28     ` Roland Winkler
2023-04-03  3:02     ` Richard Stallman
2023-04-03  3:34       ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-03 12:46         ` Andreas Schwab
2023-04-03 18:48         ` Roland Winkler
2023-04-03 23:44           ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-04  2:56           ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2023-04-05  7:24             ` Emanuel Berg

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