Let's stop the flames on USENET

[cosc19z5@bayou.uh.edu]

> 
> Dear LispOS project members,
>    quite a few of us have been involved in the flame war that
> rages in comp.lang.* about C++. I feel we've only been losing
> our precious time for people that do not deserve it.
> The only argument that this people understand is the immediate
> smell of big bucks. And the best thing we can do to provide such an
> argument is to have something like LispOS succeed.
>    So I propose that we severely censor ourselves on USENET,
> and spend more time working on LispOS...

As one of the antagonists of the C++ monkeys on Usenet, I can say
with confidence that my time on Usenet is not being wasted simply
because there is no LispOS to work on.

Unless you consider arguing about Persistence for the N^42 time to
be progress.

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-- 
Cya,
Ahmed