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Edi Weitz  
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 More options May 14 2003, 7:32 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.java.programmer
From: Edi Weitz <e...@agharta.de>
Date: 15 May 2003 01:32:21 +0200
Local: Wed, May 14 2003 7:32 pm
Subject: Re: village idiot

sca...@yahoo.com (scav50) writes:
> + paul graham says lisp is "awkward" in On Lisp. he also mentions
> feeling like on vacation in a dentist chair, when he was working on
> a lisp project (see the article about hackers and painters) - not
> exactly an expression of joy.

You should seriously consider working on your reading and
comprehension skills and then read that article[1] again. I guess you
might be able to understand what Graham really said in a couple of
years.

> at least i respect these guys and their intellectual honesty. the
> only people who advocate lisp now are shills for commercial
> implementations and the cerebrally-challenged schmucks who believe
> them.

So, if Lisp is doomed to fail and vanish from this planet why do you
spend your valuable time fighting against it? Just chill, wait another
40 years or so and it'll probably be gone...

Edi.

[1] <http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html>


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