Scheme as a virtual machine?

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On 2010-11-22 08:12:27 -0500, MarkHaniford at gmail.com said:

> All opinions are biased.

All opinions show some bias. Not all opinions represent what is usually 
called a "conflict of interest." Since JH makes his living selling 
tools and training for certain languages, he has a severe conflict of 
interest wrt asessing the value of various other languages. If these 
other languages are just as good or better than those he makes his 
living from, it would be very damaging to his livlihood for him to 
admit this fact. As a result, he is a completely unreliable source on 
the question.

This is why judges must recuse themselves from both civil and criminal 
trials if they have some significant conflict of interest. The law 
recognizes that we cannot expect a fair judgement from someone who 
stands to profit significantly if the judgement goes one way or the 
other. Similarly, we cannot expect a fair judgement on the relative 
value of various language tools from a person whose livlihood depends 
on the audience choosing only those certain language tools that he 
sells services and training for.

warmest regards,

Ralph

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Raffael Cavallaro