No Vacancy
Ken Tilton
but that was the food poisoning. I digress.
Go away. Lisp is for people smart enough to learn a language by
themselves. Hint.
This is not Python. There is no pathetic "supportive" community, and our
B in BDFL stands for "brutal". Cute frickin pun names off the name of
the language will get you shot, not a pat on the back.
This NG is for Lisp vs Scheme flamewars and nothing else. Go away.
kenny
ps. I knew things had crossed a line when between heave sessions I saw
some refugee from Cells-Gtk asking on cells-devel about frickin
Synapses. Sucker. k
Chris Barts
in comp.lang.lisp <TMTqi.101$RS1...@newsfe12.lga>:
> If I see one more nooby post I am gonna puke. Actually, I did all day,
> but that was the food poisoning. I digress.
>
> Go away. Lisp is for people smart enough to learn a language by
> themselves. Hint.
To regain your equanimity and peace of mind, go read comp.lang.c for a
fortnight and then alt.religion.scientology for three days.
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Slobodan Blazeski
> If I see one more nooby post I am gonna puke. Actually, I did all day,
> but that was the food poisoning. I digress.
>
> Go away. Lisp is for people smart enough to learn a language by
> themselves. Hint.
>
> This is not Python. There is no pathetic "supportive" community, and our
> B in BDFL stands for "brutal". Cute frickin pun names off the name of
> the language will get you shot, not a pat on the back.
>
> This NG is for Lisp vs Scheme flamewars and nothing else.
true faith.The Unclean, the Impure, the Abhorred, the Reviled, the
Hunted, the Purged and the Cleansed reside in their warp of chaos
where no orthodox soul should cross unless for destruction of our
enemies as it's written in our holy hyperspec.
"Through the destruction of our enemies do we earn our salvation"
St. Kent Pittman
jimb...@gmail.com
don't you?
-jimbo
"We have seen the enemy, and it is Jimbo." - Ken Tilton on
comp.lang.lisp
Ken Tilton
jimb...@gmail.com wrote:
> You do realize this is your own darn fault for making Lisp so popular,
> don't you?
Aw, jeez, try to keep up will you? Any blog will tell you I have done
more than my part to drive away noobs, and even some Lisp legends. I am
real proud of the latter.
kt
Thomas F. Burdick
Now you're just making stuff up. It's common knowledge that Lisp
blogs only go on and on in excruciating detail about Soduko, wrong-
headed extensions to ASDF (let's make it parse HTML!) and shitty vapor-
ware libraries that no one would be interested in anyway.
tth...@googlemail.com
> more than my part to drive away noobs, and even some Lisp legends. I am
> real proud of the latter.
I am a noob and would be swear to leave if you could write the
documentation
for cells.
thomas
Ken Tilton
Leave anyway. You have the code and a kabillion working examples
exercising every feature. The entire Cells-Gtk community uses Cells
without ever asking me one question. Clearly the problem is with <gasp>
you. You are unworthy. I recommend Visual Basic; there is nothing not to
understand.
hth,kenny
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tth...@googlemail.com
> Leave anyway. You have the code and a kabillion working examples
> exercising every feature. The entire Cells-Gtk community uses Cells
> without ever asking me one question. Clearly the problem is with <gasp>
> you. You are unworthy. I recommend Visual Basic; there is nothing not to
> understand.
That's fine for me. I thought that there will be some documentation
for
it in the future. I will stop searching for it.
Thomas
no_spam...@no.such.domain
> Lisp is for people smart enough to learn a language by themselves.
That's utterly wrong. Lisp is the best scripting and programming
language for just about everything. Lisp experts should get
together in pairs and go door to door in their neighborhood
offering to introduce everyone over 6 years old to Lisp
programming. If just ten percent of the residents in every
neighborhood in the whole world will learn to program with Lisp,
"the world will change". Goal: 600 million Lisp programmers!!
Slobodan Blazeski
Like ... like Erann Gatt, or it was Ron Garret.
Slobodan Blazeski
10% of ~6600 millions is ~660 millions, why are the 60 millions
missing?
Hm Old trick underestimate the goals to receive credit for lesser
achievements.
Slobodan Blazeski
Dear Thomas
The topic is interesting, but if you (Dear Reader) aren't into lisp
(which you shouldn't be: Lisp is a senile, imbecile language that I
suspect is still somewhat around only because a bunch of academic
types like to maintain a sort of haughty, snobbish vogue on it --
probably because it was the only language their professor's professor
knew when he was a young man, and so it goes for ever since,
generation after generation of academic types resorting to
eccentricities partly out of inertia and partly in order to augment
the feeling of self-worth by 'being different' -- or something like
that)... so what I was saying was if you're not into Lisp but
interested in this (in general worthy) topic, look elsewhere.