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Please Erik, Don't kill me...but :-)...

BW:"Hello, and Welcome to the Barbara Walters Special. Today my guest is
Noted Technologist, Erik Naggum.

Welcome Erik"

EN: "Happy to be here."

BW: "Our viewers are interested on your views about language
complexity, expressiveness and power. We were hoping to could
enlighten us about Lisp and Scheme, and perhaps C/C++"

EN: "Of course..."

Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:

[ stuff about complexity, namespaces, big and small deleted ]

>it is often said that small is beautiful.  now, anything can be beautiful
>when it is small.  the ugliest person you can think of was probably a quite
>pretty baby.  it doesn't take much effort to find a beautiful 16-year-old
>girl, either.  in fact, our modern notions of beauty and elegance are
>_defined_ in terms of size and maturity, so the chance of anything small
>and immature being beautiful is vastly higher than anything big or mature.
>now, despite all the marketing that seems to be aimed at telling me that I
>should dump a girlfriend when she becomes 25 and get a new 16-year-old (or
>even younger), I plan to stay with mine partly because of her ability to
>grow older in a way I like.  consequently, I take exceptions to the
>pedophilic attitudes to beauty and elegance that our societies have adopted
>over the years.  

Barbara Walters: "So...Are you saying that Schemers are pedophiles?"

I can just see this as her response to Eriks post.

:-) :-)...<- It's a JOKE! 

Sorry Erik, it just struck me as rather funny.

It's amazing what directions a language design discussion can take.

:-) :-)

No offense to anyone intended...

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