From: Brandon J. Van Every
Subject: A reasonably dated FAQ
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:44:55 +0000
Message-ID: <39rnlvF64nolpU1@individual.net>

I'm not volunteering, but I'm observing: a FAQ that's been updated sometime
since 1997 would probably help the cause of Lisp.  My suggestion: throw out
the 1997 FAQ, and make a mini-FAQ that has pointers to whatever the commonly
accepted "best Lisp websites" are.  The ones that provide all the info the
newbies really want to know about.  Let the websites bear the burden of
maintenance, let the FAQ be a mere indirection pointer.  Keep the list of
websites short, only take those that have proven their long-term stability.
Nothing is more useless than a gargantuan list of pointers to dead websites.

Or, if you really can't stand to throw things away, make the mini-FAQ, keep
the old FAQ, and find a way to make the mini-FAQ have higher search
precedence in search engines.

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• Re: A reasonably dated FAQ Paolo Amoroso
  • Re: A reasonably dated FAQ Brandon J. Van Every

From: Paolo Amoroso
Subject: Re: A reasonably dated FAQ
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:00:44 +0000
Message-ID: <87r7ifntdf.fsf@plato.moon.paoloamoroso.it>

"Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com> writes:

> I'm not volunteering, but I'm observing: a FAQ that's been updated sometime
> since 1997 would probably help the cause of Lisp.  My suggestion: throw out

See:

  http://www.cliki.net/FAQ


Paolo
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From: Brandon J. Van Every
Subject: Re: A reasonably dated FAQ
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:44:15 +0000
Message-ID: <39s5moF5tp4cuU1@individual.net>

Paolo Amoroso wrote:
> "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com>
> writes: 
> 
>> I'm not volunteering, but I'm observing: a FAQ that's been updated
>> sometime since 1997 would probably help the cause of Lisp.  My
>> suggestion: throw out 
> 
> See:
> 
>   http://www.cliki.net/FAQ

Thanks!  Most helpful.

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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.