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Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
From: Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelm...@web.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:52:48 +0200
Local: Fri 19 Aug 2005 16:52
Subject: Re: Ray tracer in Stalin
David Golden wrote: But everybody knows that (flame-)wars are the worst between different > Or maybe it's just that it might be easier (I have no data) to convert > someone from one faith to another* (typically the tosser's), than from > no faith to a faith - i.e. the viral meme complex of the tosser wants a sects and similar religions. See Linux vs BSD (ok, the BSD side doesn't really care :D), Lisp vs Scheme (ok, Lispers in general are quite peaceful), vi vs Emacs, GNU Emacs vs XEmacs, square brackets vs parentheses in Scheme ;) > hospitable environment, and one with potential hosts that are I think it's easiest to infect a clean host, i.e. one without clear > susceptible to similar viral meme complexes is preferred to one without > such potential hosts where propagation is therefore impossible, even if > it means the meme complex has to compete with others for control of > hosts... :-) religious preference yet. Atheists often ARE very strongly opinionated, so hard to convert, as are firm Muslims, Christians etc. > *e.g. similar to how the christians in Ireland just demoted the celtic Hm, maybe some form of tolerance/subsumption that made it easier (i.e. > pantheon to become the early irish saints by the appropriate string > substitutions in the legends, or muslims regarding Jesus as a > prophet... was necessary) to establish their religions... Like the Mac implementing Unix in order to be accepted by programmer hordes. -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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