The Lisp experience - 19-year old college student asks for help in #lisp, has to wait half an hour for a response; asks in #python, gets the answer in 6 minutes. Gives up on Lisp... "I'll wait for Arc, thanks." - comp.lang.lisp

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From: fireblade <slobodan.blaze...@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:49:46 -0000

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Subject: Re: The Lisp experience - 19-year old college student asks for help in #lisp, has to wait half an hour for a response; asks in #python, gets the answer in 6 minutes. Gives up on Lisp... "I'll wait for Arc, thanks."

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On Jun 21, 8:38 pm, Rainer Joswig <jos...@lisp.de> wrote:

> In article <joswig-CD257E.22365820062...@news-europe.giganews.com>,
> Rainer Joswig <jos...@lisp.de> wrote:

> > In article <46798df8$0$8739$ed261...@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>,
> > Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:

> > > http://classbug.com:3000/post/main.html

> > > :-)

> > ___________________________
> > /| /| | |
> > ||__|| | Please don't |
> > / O O\__ feed |
> > / \ the trolls |
> > / \ \ |
> > / _ \ \ ----------------------
> > / |\____\ \ ||
> > / | | | |\____/ ||
> > / \|_|_|/ | __||
> > / / \ |____| ||
> > / | | /| | --|
> > | | |// |____ --|
> > * _ | |_|_|_| | \-/
> > *-- _--\ _ \ // |
> > / _ \\ _ // | /
> > * / \_ /- | - | |
> > * ___ c_c_c_C/ \C_c_c_c____________

> Didn't I say this is trolling? Wrong! It was trolling squared.

> http://classbug.com:3000/post/main.html

> ...

> I wrote this article in part to try to figure out why the Lisp
> community is small compared to others. Contrasting the community with
> that of Python and Ruby is reasonable. If I'd rewrite this article
> today I'd place far less emphasis on time. Time wasn't important at
> all.. I always try to be patient when I'm on other people's time.

> ...

> --http://lispm.dyndns.org- Hide quoted text -

> - Show quoted text -

There's no such thing as bad publicity. As long as they spell your
name right. As long as your face and name is out there, as long as
you're dancing in the public eye it doesn't matter whether your laces
are untied or your sock has a hole or your hair looks like you combed
it with a corkscrew. Any publicity is good publicity.

Look at this guy Bruce started with utter rubbish and now he's
actually doing (*)lisp and himself a favour. before
http://brucio.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-lisp.html now http://brucio.blogspot.com/.

Slobodan Blazeski

My apologies to those who like Java, C#, PHP, Delphi, Visual Basic,
Perl, Python, Ruby, COBOL, F#, Ocaml or any other language. I know you
think you know a better language than lisp. All I can say is I do,
too!

(*) When I say lisp I mean Common Lisp

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