From: Jon Harrop
Subject: Largest acquisition of a Lisp company: $500bn
Date: 
Message-ID: <13cuqdstqk6ue0@corp.supernews.com>
  http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/1358204&from=rss

If you count OCaml as a Lisp, of course.

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From: ······@corporate-world.lisp.de
Subject: Re: Largest acquisition of a Lisp company: $500bn
Date: 
Message-ID: <1188004493.238567.179650@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 25, 1:18 am, Jon Harrop <····@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
>  http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/1358204&from=rss
>
> If you count OCaml as a Lisp, of course.
>
> --
> 'Dr' Jon D Harrop, Frying Frog Consultancy
> OCaml for Frogs http://www.ffconsultancy.com/spam/ocaml_for_frogs/?usenet-spam

Readtime error at '$500bn'.

Error: The value $500000000000 is out of range.
  1 (continue) Stop spamming.
  2 (abort) Return to comp.lang.functional.
  3 Give back your 'Dr'.

Type :b for backtrace, :c <option number> to proceed,  or :? for other
options

CL-USER 2 : 1 >

Too bad.
From: Tim Bradshaw
Subject: Re: Largest acquisition of a Lisp company: $500bn
Date: 
Message-ID: <1188041111.262978.232230@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 25, 12:18 am, Jon Harrop <····@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
>  http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/1358204&from=rss
>
> If you count OCaml as a Lisp, of course.

Here in the Lisp community, we try to avoid numerical errors of three
orders of magnitude.
From: Rainer Joswig
Subject: Re: Largest acquisition of a Lisp company: $500bn
Date: 
Message-ID: <joswig-B5AF2B.14045525082007@news-europe.giganews.com>
In article <························@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
 Tim Bradshaw <··········@tfeb.org> wrote:

> On Aug 25, 12:18 am, Jon Harrop <····@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> >  http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/1358204&from=rss
> >
> > If you count OCaml as a Lisp, of course.
> 
> Here in the Lisp community, we try to avoid numerical errors of three
> orders of magnitude.

He, it could be worse. It could be british billions. ;-)

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From: Jon Harrop
Subject: Re: Largest acquisition of a Lisp company: $500bn
Date: 
Message-ID: <13d0l42shfoct3e@corp.supernews.com>
Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On Aug 25, 12:18 am, Jon Harrop <····@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
>>  http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/1358204&from=rss
>>
>> If you count OCaml as a Lisp, of course.
> 
> Here in the Lisp community, we try to avoid numerical errors of three
> orders of magnitude.

Must have been the astrophysicist in me. Still, a pretty amazing
accomplishment! =8-)

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
OCaml for Scientists
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From: Pascal Costanza
Subject: Re: Largest acquisition of a Lisp company: $500bn
Date: 
Message-ID: <5j9v48F3sadjsU1@mid.individual.net>
Jon Harrop wrote:
>   http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/1358204&from=rss
> 
> If you count OCaml as a Lisp, of course.

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009687.php

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From: Leandro Rios
Subject: Re: Largest acquisition of a Lisp company: $500bn
Date: 
Message-ID: <46d020ff$0$1341$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere.com>
Pascal Costanza escribi�:
> Jon Harrop wrote:
>>   http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/1358204&from=rss
>>
>> If you count OCaml as a Lisp, of course.
> 
> http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009687.php
> 

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