[r6rs-discuss] (no subject)

[Guillermo J. Rozas]

What's progress and what is not is not objective (it is a value  
judgement)
and only history can tell.

For many years in the 20th century, it was considered 'progressive'  
to have
a marxist/communist revolution.  We all know what happened to that.

I'm sure that there are ways in which I would like the language to  
change
that others (who consider themselves 'the party of innovation') would  
find
horrifying.

But case sensitivity is not an issue of innovation.  It is an issue  
of continuity.


|  Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:00:19 -0800
> From: "Arthur A. Gleckler" <scheme at speechcode.com>
> Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Now, where were we?
> To: John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>
> Cc: r6rs-discuss at lists.r6rs.org, Mitchell Wand <wand at ccs.neu.edu>
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>> Indeed.  It shows what is to my mind the deepest cleavage in the
>> community, between the party of innovation and the party of arrested
>> innovation.  (I forget who first used these terms: I saw them some  
>> forty
>> years ago in a paper on academic politics.)
>>
>
> "...The party of arrested innovation?"  Please, could we stop with the
> ad hominem attacks?  It should be possible to have a fun, technical
> discussion without being rude.