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> The problem, my friends, is his email signature: >> -- >> Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp > You see, Peter has not quite made the conversion to full Lisp -Peter -- Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp Dave Roberts <ld...@droberts.com> writes: Heh. I've been aware of that incongruity; I've just been too lazy to
> Now that Peter Siebel is getting close to releasing his book, I
> thought that I should speak up. Something, frankly, has been
> bothering me about Peter. It isn't his programming skills; those are
> clearly top-notch. It isn't even his writing skills; those are
> clearly up to the challenge of writing a book. In short, Peter seems
> like an intelligent, well-educated purveyer of the programming art.
> Indeed, the fact that he has shifted from an early Java disciple to
> a Lisp disciple is admirable.
>> Peter Seibel pe...@javamonkey.com
> master. He's holding on. Clearly, he's conflicted about it. He has a
> nice bit of Lisp advocacy in there at the end, but the
> "javamonkey.com" address shows he's not quite willing to fully
> commit.
do anything about it. But that's is why the book is on
gigamonkeys.com. I guess now is as good a time as any to make the
switch. So, unless I've dorked up something in my Emacs config, this
message should be from the new me.
> Thus, my friends, I have taken the bold step of registering and I'm touched. I actually considered registering lispmonkey.com some
> parking "lispmonkey.com" for Peter. When he's ready to take the final
> plunge, I would urge Peter to contact me and we can finalize the
> domain transfer.
time ago but decided that it doesn't have quite the same ring to
it--my javamonkey domain was always meant as a subtle dig at
Java--even when I liked it, I realized it was for monkeys. I don't
feel that way about Lisp.
> I pray this will occur before his book goes to press such that any No, book stuff--and my main email now on, will be at gigamonkeys.com.
> new Lisp disciples brought to the "one true faith" will not find
> their sensei in this state of half commitment. This is particularly
> true if Peter has decided to include any "You can contact the author
> at: *...@javamonkey.com," statements in his book.
As in, you can hire a billion monkeys, or you can hire me!
Peter Seibel pe...@gigamonkeys.com