Subject: Re: MD5 in LISP and abstraction inversions From: Erik
Naggum <> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 22:59:52 GMT Newsgroups:
comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <>  * John Foderaro | However suppose
you were given the power today to tell me that I can no | longer
use if*.  Would you tell me that?    For external, published
code, in order to keep the community stability,   all of us rid
our code and even our prose, of personal idiosyncrasies.
Publishing houses and their copy editors exist primiarily to get
rid of   the "personal dialects" of its staff of authors, and
series editors of   technical books make sure that all authors
agree on the terminology.  We   have a large number of other
examples of how people have to extinguish   their pet peeves in
order for the community to work better.  To reject   _all_ of
the consensus-forming procedures in a community is hostile to
every single memer of that community, because every one of us
has already   made, and will continue to make, sacrifices in
order to further the goal