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From: TheFlyingDutchman <zzbba...@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: object address
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:37:32 -0800 (PST)
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>
> > Not sure I understand. You are an expert at Common Lisp, which you
> > find interesting. You don't find Java interesting because it is a
> > popular language that you feel non-programmers can use. And yet you
> > are choosing not to program in Common Lisp but instead in a language
> > you don't find interesting?
>
> Let's say I was also interested in working on nuclear weapons design,
> and I've been offered a job to do that. =A0Everything is cool about this
> job except that they have really mediocre coffee - not particularly
> unpleasant coffee, but it's not great, and I'm a real coffee snob,
> something of an expert in fact, and I have no time for this mass-market
> coffee really. Since this is the government, they've taken out some
> huge multi-year contract with the boring coffee co to supply this
> boring coffee. =A0I could (a) turn down the job and work for Starbucks,
> (b) accept the job, struggle endlessly to get the coffee contract
> changed in an increasingly shrill way, get sacked, fail to get a job
> working for Starbucks, lose my house, end up living on the street
> begging for money to feed my expensive coffee habit, or (c) decide that
> I can always go out at lunch to get some good coffee and since I really
> want to do the blowing-up-the-world stuff I'll take the job and not
> whine about the coffee.

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.

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.