Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: What's more idiomatic?
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:26:44 -0600
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <103fc7j$2aqr4$1@dont-email.me>
References: <103ebv0$22d39$1@dont-email.me> <20250624125232.81@kylheku.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:26:44 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="593919bf0aacaa1b5f2ecdcaeb4b64d6";
	logging-data="2452324"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX183EOC51/JA/gikTZet2BXcn133yi+uaGQ="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:OcEhCAeKZMoOOh9rbzlLyDECm3s=
In-Reply-To: <20250624125232.81@kylheku.com>
Content-Language: en-US

On 6/24/2025 1:56 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2025-06-24, B. Pym <Nobody447095@here-nor-there.org> wrote:
>> What if there were 26 lists instead of 2?  Instead of just
> 
> I've never seen a situation where two named lists had to scale to 26.
> For instance, zipping over symbols and their values.
> 
> You've been demonstrating your skills in writing small one-liner
> programs for solving tiny sub-problems for probably close to
> two decades.
> 
> It's not even on the level of Leetcode problems.
> 
> Meanwhile, in that time, beginners have matured into professionals
> working on complex applications.
> 
> What actual skills do you have?


I think that's a good question. My opinion, stated in the past, is that 
we are only honored with its presence when he is between jobs. Given the 
frequency of its appearance, I'd say those jobs don't last very long. 
Perhaps that is because of the same display of unwarranted arrogance 
displayed here.
-- 
Jeff Barnett