Scheme as a virtual machine?

[Keith H Duggar]

On Nov 22, 5:12 pm, Raffael Cavallaro
<raffaelcavall... at pas.despam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com> wrote:
> On 2010-11-22 11:25:34 -0500, scattered said:
>
> > And you don't think that [JH] could write a book about Haskell
> > if he honestly came to think that it were a superior all-aroung
> > language?
>
> Until he actually does, he has a financial interest in trash-talking
> Haskell. This makes anything he says about Haskell suspect.
>
> >  The fact that he *didn't* mindlessly reject [musical note lang] in favor of
> > [Irish Ship Of The Desert] when [musical note lang] came out (despite
> > the fact that at the time his company
> > was deeply (exclusively?) invested in [Irish Ship Of The Desert] and
> > arguably had a vested
> > interest in having [musical note lang] fail to gain support) suggests
> > that he is able
> > to fairly evaluate the merits of other languages.
>
> No, it suggests that he saw that supporting the Irish Ship Of The
> Desert meant going up against Microsoft, so he jumped to the MS
> supported variant of the Donut Dromedary.
>
> You miss the fundamental point; having a financial interest in the
> outcome of a debate makes anything that person says an advertisement
> for his financial interests, not a fair assessment.

There is a well-known name for such illogical reasoning: ad hominem.
When a person poses an /argument/, nothing personal outside of the
/argument/ is relevant. Thus, your claim that "anything that person
says ..." is not only obvious hyperbole it is also illogical.

It is a common refuge of those who cannot support their position
with fact and logic. On more than one occasion Jon Harrop has all
but crushed Ertugrul in this very forum with /source code/; that
is as objective as it gets.

KHD