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Wodin wrote:

Jasper wrote:Hi. Firstly, many of us here prefer full sentences and typo-checked writing. Secondly, some might feel that you're asking us do do your homework.

Have you heard of Muphry's Law

Hah, that's good! At first I thought you'd typoed "Murphy" and expected to see a Wikipedia-style 404

My only concern with this is that the automatic moderation of newbie posts could lead to poor findinglisp being overwhelmed with a backlog of awaiting-moderation posts by both legitimate newbies and spammers, but it sounds like the traffic isn't high enough for that yet.

Hmm, two separate spambots posting to the same thread

Since many different Language-Interpreters and other software uses Garbage-Collectors, and since Garbage Collectors usually produce Overhead, running more of them can make a System slower. For example, when running a Java VM, perl and SBCL for example, at the same time, on a small VPS, etc., any of...

Hi folks, about Practical Common Lisp I'm going through the book I'm currently reading chapter 13 and I wonder why this is considered to be a great book, so far it hasn't conveyed any original idea about programming and it seems to be just a boring list of lisp functions without going into any deta...

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Does it not simply mean that the file was closed successfully? (let form evaluates to its last subform, which is (close in), so that returns T (I presume is the emacs lisp equivalent of #t in Common Lisp, i.e. true)... right?)

Looks like spammers (like this one ) are hitting the board - there's probably a captcha in the registration page; I can't remember... but it's probably still worthwhile for a human spammer to fill in a captcha once, then unleash a bot with the new account. How about adding a captcha when submitting ...