ok, I'm dropping this thread (was Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme)

[Alex Martelli]

Once again I got an email copy of an article that doesn't show up on
the newsgroup, this one from Eran Gatt:

"""
In article <Yayib.209123$hE5.7021641 at news1.tin.it>, aleax at aleax.it wrote:

> > Not only did Erann refuse to reciprocate Alex Martelli's ad hominem
> 
> He earlier posted my assertions were "mind-boggling"

No, I didn't, as a quick Google search will verify.  (Notwithstanding, I
don't consider "mind-boggling" to be a particularly pejorative term.)
"""

The exact quote was "It boggles my mind" and not "It is mind
boggling" and the post was on October 4 (my memory isn't sharp enough
any more to be literal after 10 days -- and I didn't mean the quotes to
indicate literal exactness, but that was unclear from context, sorry).
I consider the expression to be amply pejorative in the context in which
it was made, which is easy to recover from googling.

Anyway, when the debate focuses on whether one said "boggles" or "boggling", 
I guess it's destiny's sign to me to drop this thread -- I do need to get 
back to my usual productivity on several tasks coming due, anyway.  So, I'm 
killfiling the subject in both news and mail -- if anybody thinks he/she 
needs to get my urgent attention at all costs, pls use a non-overlapping 
subject, thanks.  Don't take this as a sign that I consider there is _any_
level of validity in the other sides' insults, arguments, and/or FUD: it's 
simply a question of numbers -- with Andrew Dalke having also bowed out, I 
just can't by myself effectively answer the half a dozen lispers still 
actively and energetically posting on this thread, particularly since, as 
I've pointed out repeatedly in past posts, they're singly, jointly and 
severally expressing a wide variety of contradictory beliefs, opinions and
'facts' (all within the overarching schema of "macros are good, resistance 
is futile" or thereabouts).


Alex