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Kenny Tilton

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More options Jun 24 2005, 1:57 am

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From: Kenny Tilton <ktil...@nyc.rr.com>

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:57:25 GMT

Local: Fri, Jun 24 2005 1:57 am

Subject: Re: ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and Rahul

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Christopher C. Stacy wrote:
> Kenny Tilton <ktil...@nyc.rr.com> writes:

>>* McCarthy actually meant that very little code lasts ten years.

> That would suggest a serious disconnect with reality;
> it's a little hard to believe.

Oh. please. You have no knowledge or experience of production code. It
/always/ gets thrown way when it needs changing. By the time the
corpolopolis acknowledges change is needed, the old code is too rotten
to refactor.

ie, No, I was just having fun, JMcC did not really slam Rahul, he just
made an easy point: production code regularly gets tossed, because it is
so much easier to rewrite than salvage. And if you are re-salvaging, tou
may as well change syntax change here and there.

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Kenny

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