18:07:53warweasleI read a study by NAVSEA about comparing various languages. Lisp seemed thrown in as an afterthought and it seemed like they were pushing for Haskell. The Lisp programmer showed up late and then cranked out the code in a few hours and would have won the competition IF they thought lisp was a viable language.
18:31:53jealousmonkwarweasle: that's interesting! do you have a link to this study?
18:39:42markasoftwareIf :lambda-list is passed to ensure-generic-function, and an :argument-precedence-order was previously set, is the argument-precedence-order discarded?
18:39:56markasoftwareand reset to just the order of the required arguments in the lambda-list