I would like to love Lisp, I really would. But I have a small, shamefulproblem that gets in the way:

Trying to read Lisp code makes my eyes bleed.

This isn't because I can't stand Lisp itself; it's more because I can'tseem to stand the way that the Lisp community has decided to format Lispcode.

(Through some magic process that seems entirely at odds with theirfractious nature, the Lisp community seems to have standardize on a codeformatting standard

One of the problems with the whole virtual memory overcommit issue is the difficulty of working out how much memorytruly is committed. For example, consider all of the ways that Unixkernels can commit themselves to holding down memory on behalf of a userprocess. In addition to obvious things like System V shared memory, thisincludes (but isn't limited to):

• pipe data buffers, including unused ones; theoretically every pipepair created commits the kernel to at least 4K of buffer or so.
• socket send and