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Peter Seibel  
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 More options Mar 14 2006, 10:47 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Peter Seibel <pe...@gigamonkeys.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:47:47 GMT
Local: Tues, Mar 14 2006 10:47 am
Subject: Re: Open Letter to Peter Seibel

Ken Tilton <kentil...@gmail.com> writes:
> Peter Seibel wrote:
>> Ken Tilton <kentil...@gmail.com> writes:

>>>bradb wrote:

>>>>At least if nothing else good comes of all this, the cells-basic
>>>>tutorial is now up to date :)  <ducks>

>>><heh-heh> No need to duck, I was laughing about that already. The
>>>only downside is if I decide screw you guys, I'm going home.

>>>The larger point is that it really is a two-way street. You raised
>>>an issue with the doc and it got fixed. Coincidence? I don't think
>>>so. :)

>>>Doc whiners who never ask the maintainers anything remind me of this
>>>story:
>> Hey, I didn't whine about the doc; I don't care one way or the
>> other.
>> I just explaind why it was thta I never bothered to look deeply into
>> Cells, in response to your claim that it was because I was unable to
>> get it running.

> Stop bobbing and weaving. :) Your response was as you say, explaining
> that you could not find anything explaining what it was and why you
> should bother. That explanation is what I am addressing. And I cannot
> believe you did not explain how what I posted did not address both
> what Cells is and why you should bother.

It looks like it might. But like I said, I don't really care any more.
You've been selling Cells up and down for years now; when you first
started I was interested and excited enough to go looking for this
kind of material; unfortunately it didn't exist then. Now I'm in a
more wait and see (i.e. lazy) mode. Some day I may have a problem that
I'll say, hmmm, this seems like a perfect thing for Cells, maybe I
should go check it out again. Or maybe I'll see that people other than
you are making good use of it and that'll excite my interest again.
But for now it's been pushed well down stack of things to check out.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel           * pe...@gigamonkeys.com
Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/
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