guile-user
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: GUILE FAQ


From: Chris Cramer
Subject: Re: GUILE FAQ
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:08:17 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:08:33AM -0800, Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
> (what does "DTRT" stand for?)

Do The Right Thing (versus, I guess, Do The Easiest Thing). It sums
up the general philosophical difference between C, C++, perl, etc.
and Common Lisp, Scheme, ML, etc. It was before my time, but I've also
seen it used to describe ITS in contrast to Unix (and recently, Linux
in contrast to Windows... go figure).

-- 
C. Ray C. aka Christopher Cramer
address@hidden
http://www.pyro.net/~crayc/



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]