From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: low quality lisp books References: Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3209854235674027@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:10:36 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1000865436 193.90.205.112 (Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:10:36 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:10:36 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:16509 * "Philip M" > How the hell am I supposed to separate that kind of elitist attitude of > the people who program in lisp from lisp itself? Grow smarter? You know, these days, there is a lot of your attitude going around, and Arab-Americans get seriously hurt because of it. I would have thought that at least _some_ people would grow a clue from current events and curb such stupid attitudes as you display here. Also consider the fact that you posted a provocative, fairly hateful message, and that nobody _really_ believes it is a friend speaking, "friend" is just chicken speak for "I cannot stand by this, but I post it anyway". Your first message could be answered reasonably, however. Your followup shows everybody that _you_ are the asshole who has to resort to that kind of response when you do not get things your way. You will of course not accept this, but think that you are in the right and everybody else is in the wrong. Calling a well-respected author and his faily well-respected book really bad things is OK with you, but getting a response in kind is not, and that says a whole lot about you that I think you _should_ have been smart enough to figure out is not to your benefit. You can still grow a clue, though. Just respond maturely to the criticism you get, OK? ///