> > As far as your example, you could bring your own coffee blend and even
> > your own coffee maker to your cubicle or the office kitchen. Many
> > people do that around the world who are coffee snobs. I would find
> > some other negative for the next iteration.

> Actually, it's a pretty good analogy, as you've probably read the
> followup about buying a personal license / funding development as a
> version of the personal coffee maker thing.

> > With your Usenet history demonstrating a tremendous passion for Common
> > Lisp, it is hard to concieve of a problem domain that would be able to
> > draw you away from the language you love so dearly and force you to
> > program shoulder to shoulder with cargo-cult programmers using
> > languages which you find uninteresting. And a problem domain for which
> > you, with your Common Lisp expertise, couldn't convince management
> > team to solve at least a portion of it with Common Lisp.

> It's a little surprising to me that you understand my interests so much
> better than I do, as well as understanding what I do well enough to
> know that CL is obviously such a good fit for it.