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Erik Naggum  
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 More options Aug 10 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/08/10
Subject: Re: Curious about functional programming
* Xah <x...@xahlee.org>
| BTW, I don't understand your last sentence.

  Of course you don't.  If you did, you'd have to commit suicide, or
  stop posting insane drivel, whichever is the least humiliating.

[ I have improved on your lacking capitalization. ]

#:Erik
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Xah  
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 More options Aug 11 2000, 3:00 am
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From: Xah <x...@xahlee.org>
Date: 2000/08/11
Subject: Re: Curious about functional programming
Dear Mr. asshole,

Erik wrote:
> * Xah <x...@xahlee.org>
> | (1) why do you use all lower case? For some magical reason unknown to me,
> | Erik Naggum stopped his all-lower-case disorder.

> Is that which is unknown to you, despite having been explained at
> least 5 times in great detail, "magical", or do you only flirt with
> words in your customary meaningless way, again?  If the former, no
> wonder you're a critic of those who understand their surroundings.
Xah wrote:
> | BTW, I don't understand your last sentence.
Erik wrote:
> Of course you don't.  If you did, you'd have to commit suicide, or
> stop posting insane drivel, whichever is the least humiliating.

Now i understand what you meant. Paraphrase: "It is easy to see, that since
you are ignorant of your own ignorance, you criticize people who know."

    LAME.

it is exactly this kind of insolent thoughts mythically expressed that makes
a large proportion of your posts tiring and time wasting to plod through.
it is also why you are loathed and kill-filed by many.  your behavior is a
wayward idiotic behavior of dubious value if not downright putrid that death
is a suitable remedy.

have you not heard Arthur Clarke's pop quote about ignorance & magic?

what a scarred monster your are.  i'm _so_ amused by your tomfoolery of
puerile baseness.  take your suicide fixation home and make it a reality,
ok?

Erik wrote:
> [ I have improved on your lacking capitalization. ]

and I have improved your respectfulness, understand, asshole of no small
measure.

 Xah
 x...@xahlee.org
 http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html


 
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Erik Naggum  
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 More options Aug 11 2000, 3:00 am
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From: Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/08/11
Subject: Re: Curious about functional programming
* Xah <x...@xahlee.org>
| Now i understand what you meant.

  No, you don't, and you know it, too, from the way you react.  For
  someone who wants to be regarded as so smart as you _need_ to be,
  you're doing an appalling job of "getting" anything that doesn't
  agree completely with your view of the world.  This isn't smart,
  regardless of the vocabulary used to express your problems, but
  neither is it a surprise, of course, considering that you're doing
  an amazingly good job of showing everyone that your head has gone
  bad.  A very useful diagnostic tool for people like you is to prod
  them with some contrary information or form and watch them not get
  it at all, neither humor nor actual message.

| it is exactly this kind of insolent thoughts mythically expressed
| that makes a large proportion of your posts tiring and time wasting
| to plod through.

  I'm very pleased that you expend the effort both to read my posts
  and write your exquisite responses to them.

| it is also why you are loathed and kill-filed by many.  your
| behavior is a wayward idiotic behavior of dubious value if not
| downright putrid that death is a suitable remedy.

  You're the expert, but I still need to point out to you that the
  contrary information you are _unable_ to grasp is that I, unlike
  you, also make technical contributions appreciated by many.

| have you not heard Arthur Clarke's pop quote about ignorance & magic?

  No, but I have, of course, heard his "pop quote" about sufficiently
  advanced technology and magic.  As far as I know, he has never made
  any "quotes", pop or not, about ignorance and magic.  Are you over
  your head in literary references you don't master, again?

  BTW, my spoof of said quote goes:

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

| what a scarred monster your are.  i'm _so_ amused by your tomfoolery
| of puerile baseness.  take your suicide fixation home and make it a
| reality, ok?

  What was that four-letter word you used again?  "LAME", was it?

  My cat leaves stinkier turds than you can post, Xah, and she bites
  with real teeth and scratches with real claws.

#:Erik
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Len Charest  
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 More options Aug 11 2000, 3:00 am
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From: Len Charest <fn...@example.com>
Date: 2000/08/11
Subject: Re: Curious about functional programming
<delurk>
I find it quite fascinating that this newsgroup, a *technical* newsgroup
with a relatively low message volume, can still support TWO kooks at
once. Bravo!
</delurk>

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SupplyEdge, Inc. (formerly Cogent Software)    <http://>


 
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Fernando D. Mato Mira  
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 More options Aug 11 2000, 3:00 am
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From: "Fernando D. Mato Mira" <matom...@iname.com>
Date: 2000/08/11
Subject: Re: Curious about functional programming

Len Charest wrote:

> <delurk>
> I find it quite fascinating that this newsgroup, a *technical* newsgroup
> with a relatively low message volume, can still support TWO kooks at
> once. Bravo!
> </delurk>

> --
> Len Charest                                       <len@>
> SupplyEdge, Inc. (formerly Cogent Software)    <http://>

Hi!

<idea>
  Remeber CoreWar? We have robo contests now. How about FlameWar? That
should get the ball going faster than Scheme/FP courses at universities
[Fernando looks at Matthias]

   ANNOUNCER: On this corner, from Indiana, the current champion:
Macrolator!!
   CROWD: MACRO!! MACRO!!
   ANNOUNCER: On the other, from Edinburgh, "The Rock"!
   CROWD: BOO! BOO!

   Let the Flame begin!
</idea>

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                                           E-mail   : matomira AT acm DOT org


 
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Erik Naggum  
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 More options Aug 11 2000, 3:00 am
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From: Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/08/11
Subject: Re: Curious about functional programming
* Len Charest <fn...@example.com>
| <delurk>
| I find it quite fascinating that this newsgroup, a *technical* newsgroup
| with a relatively low message volume, can still support TWO kooks at
| once. Bravo!
| </delurk>

  A _real_ outsider would of course now count at least three.  Bravo, indeed.

#:Erik
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Christopher Browne  
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 More options Aug 12 2000, 3:00 am
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From: cbbro...@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne)
Date: 2000/08/12
Subject: Re: Curious about functional programming
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Fernando D. Mato Mira
would say:

The other great idea would be to write a program that takes, as input,
a set of messages written by a particular person, and then generates a
program that simulates what that person has said.

There are a couple of Net.Kooks (tm) I can think of that it would be
_really_ entertaining to troll in this manner.  [There are two that
"live" at can.taxes that leap particularly to mind...]
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mailer to blow out is a good way to stifle dissent.
-- from the Symbolics Guidelines for Sending Mail


 
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