Re: [C&C] Re: [tlug] OT: interesting NY times article:High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Edward Middleton writes:

 > > All three versions are obnoxious programs, however, being "holier than
 > > thou".  As Edward (almost) points out, the correct design is
 > >
 > > (mapc (lambda (x)
 > >         (mapc (lambda (y)
 > >                 (format "%s should learn to better understand %s\n" x y))
 > >               nationalities)
 > >         nationalities))
 > >   
 > 
 > For a non lisp programmer could you explain how this works.  I would 
 > have thought this would start with "Americans should learn to better 
 > understand Americans"?

Well, don't you think the world would be a better place if they did?<wink>

That is the main difference between your algorithm and mine, though.
Yours assumes that people of the same nationality understand each
other, mine is more pessimistic.