Anton van Straaten
gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
On 2008.01.17 00:58:19 +0100, jerzy.karczmarczuk@info.unicaen.fr scribbled 0.9K characters:
Achim Schneider writes:
Lisp is actually not really meant to be compiled, but interpreted. ... Would you mind stopping to spread dubious truths? ... I don't think it's a dubious truth.
It's about as accurate as saying "Television is actually not really meant to be color, but black and white".
Yes, that about fits... the chroma data still has only half the resolution of luminosity. In fact, it wasn't even meant to be a programming language, just a calculus. But still, I should have written "was meant" not "is meant". -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.