From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Arguing for a nilp function and where to put it Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 22:56:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ql416bp.fsf@gnu.org> <875yadhc52.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87v8icssy1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9087"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Roland Winkler Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 04 04:57:07 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pjWr4-0002BK-NS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:57:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjWqH-0001KB-0W; Mon, 03 Apr 2023 22:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjWqD-0001Ib-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2023 22:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjWqB-0008RF-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2023 22:56:12 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=Y7Ea53P/Svobd5YZLSgZkJ1pMSmSb/xAzE1gd2YtwwI=; b=Tq7M9f8GdMrw LYF4vTIqnBghkmyHdzHLMSnJQX5M0OfDtrEdAuGrOsZ4zsAii/scqo91TMfcirig286MJZ6oP2Fsc gQlzGF0j/UHui14ieT2u4JftMTa1YZVb3czKjmiY2n11K2Ik4mtoQTzez5cUhqfr9E7bh/TsicgZT qpMBmaym2OOHlSHILd6do7PGK5+vKAXWVj0fNgJONwDJ6vskBgHh2kJ38lSI73PMVg/oMCew0gv3Y In9QSTRHt2It4KBLXtFlS2beQkwFbiQTXnVz+gm80A98S4leizaHlAABDiDd1IE6X01qgh/54uhbx QjDL9DXxG3qzNPwbwRPL7w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjWq9-0004xq-Kc; Mon, 03 Apr 2023 22:56:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v8icssy1.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Roland Winkler on Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:48:22 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:305091 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)