From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Forking stables. was Re: language translator help Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:53:44 -0700 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200206141608.12568.unknown_lamer@unknownlamer.org> <200206141703.26705.unknown_lamer@unknownlamer.org> <87hek5357e.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> <87d6uomnuu.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> Reply-To: ttn@glug.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033754722 26878 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 18:05:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:05:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org 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 17xWpE-0006zN-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 20:05:20 +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 17xWoL-0006sE-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xWnq-0006Jb-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:03:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xWno-0006Gk-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:03:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ca-crlsca-cuda3-c6a-b-211.crlsca.adelphia.net ([68.71.15.211] helo=giblet) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xWnn-0006Ee-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:03:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by giblet with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xWe0-0005OA-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:53:44 -0700 Original-To: chrisb@kippona.com In-reply-to: <87d6uomnuu.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> (news@kippona.com) Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:1135 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:1135 From: (Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:40:57 -0400 This is my roundabout way of saying that stability, backward compatibility, and emulation are ways to continue using code you can't modify. That's an answer to ttn's (rhetorical?) question. thanks (the question was not rhetorical). lots of new and even some old programmers don't see things this way; perhaps they'll learn over time. thi _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user