So what is the word for when you say I haven't looked at your website based on no evidence and in the presence of evidence to the contrary? I would say "presume" fits the bill. And that is something. So it does seem that you have presumed something. And that is the exact thing I was saying you presumed. It's a pretty basic fact and it's written down. But you will still dispute it and claim I'm being stupid.
> It is evidence that your claim that "People like to say that lisp had a much greater influence than it actually did" is wrong.
I thought we were discussing the "hundreds of people" that my previous assumption apparently denigrates. But if you want to talk about inflating lisp's reputation, a good example would be talking about how a single paper on list being cited in _lisp_ text-books is evidence that it is "the foundation of all modern programming languages".
Would you say there are properties of this textbook that make it more related to lisp and lisp interpreters than the average textbook, and hence more likely to reference the early material about lisp and lisp interpreters?
Can you really not answer a question that simple? Every textbook has a certain amount of lisp in it. Take the average of all of those amounts (the mean, lets say), and you will get the amount of lisp in the average textbook. This is a substantially smaller amount than the one you just picked. Can you really not work that out of your own accord? Can you think of any definition of the average textbook that means it has as much lisp as the one you just picked out? No. I think you are just being obtuse.
So what is the word for when you say I haven't looked at your website based on no evidence and in the presence of evidence to the contrary? I would say "presume" fits the bill. And that is something. So it does seem that you have presumed something. And that is the exact thing I was saying you presumed. It's a pretty basic fact and it's written down. But you will still dispute it and claim I'm being stupid.
> It is evidence that your claim that "People like to say that lisp had a much greater influence than it actually did" is wrong.
I thought we were discussing the "hundreds of people" that my previous assumption apparently denigrates. But if you want to talk about inflating lisp's reputation, a good example would be talking about how a single paper on list being cited in _lisp_ text-books is evidence that it is "the foundation of all modern programming languages".