The Importance of Terminology's Quality

[Robert Maas,]

Why this response is so belated:
  <http://groups.google.com/group/misc.misc/msg/cea714440e591dd2>
= <news:rem-2008jun25-003 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:37:48 +0100
> From: Jon Harrop <j... at ffconsultancy.com>
> We all know that Java, Perl, Python and Lisp suck.

Well at least you're three-quarters correct there.
But Lisp doesn't suck. That's where you're one quarter wrong.

> They don't even have pattern matching over algebraic sum types if
> you can imagine that.

I'm still waiting for you to precisely define what you mean by
"pattern matching" in this context. All I've heard from you so-far
are crickets. If you've set up a Web page with your personal
definition of "pattern matching" as you've been using that term
here, and you've posted its URL in a newsgroup article I didn't
happen to see, please post just the URL again here so that I might
finally see it. Or e-mail me the URL.

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