On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:13:51 -0500, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Assuming you're being serious, it comes from the description of Scheme as > jewel-like: precious, hard, in some sense discovered rather than > invented. As OP pointed out, I was not being serious. I think concepts like "jewel-like" exist in the same uninstantiated realm of goodness that is also occupied by double-plus-good ideas like "freedom" or "patriotism". In almost all cases, it is better to argue about the relationships between specific ideas and their implications than to try to argue from these principles, as otherwise a dispute about the meaning of these ideals - and an accusation that one side or another is not holding to those ideas - will inevitably result. -- Brian Mastenbrook [email protected] http://brian.mastenbrook.net/ _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
