Re: Morally equivalent

[Michael Heerdegen]

Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:

> It is just political nonsense pushed into software.  An introductory
> textbook for beginning undergraduates is never serious.  And even
> if it was serious, morality does not work.  Either it is equivalent,
> or it is not.  There is no morality in it.

I was not familiar with that term (doesn't appear in German) but
understood the doc perfectly.  OTOH, if the text said

  This is not equivalent to (setf PLACE (cons NEWELT PLACE))

I would not have understood (and it is _not_ equivalent).

Until someone comes with a better wording we should stop the
Stefan-bashing.  Read it as "equivalent in some sense", and good.  It's
a text, ok, not a computer program controlling the city traffic.

Michael.