Date: 8 May 1986 10:41 EDT (Thu) From: "Bruce R. Donald" To: whiners%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU cc: 7AI%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU Subject: GSB Tomorrow Friday! All come. We will discuss the following disturbing news. Hacker Rips "Lisp Machine Manual" -------------------------------- CAMBRIDGE, MA. Church members singing "O, How I Love Jesus" burned 3600 manuals, mice, and FEP proms after attending a seminar in which an evangelist said the "Lisp Machine Manual" conveys a satanic message to unwary readers. About 75 teenagers attended the prom burning after the Tuesday night seminar. Our M. Ess, an evangelist, said the SI: package extols Satan when disassambled. SI:RECORD-SOURCE-FILE-NAME contains the microcoded message "the source is Satan," and "someone munged this file for Satan," Rev. Ess said during the seminar. "Furthermore, it is unnatural to be able to Meta-dot something that isn't declared with a DEFUN, the way God and Steele indended," Ess continued. "Function definition by artificial means is the first sign of demonic possession."