From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." Date: 25 Oct 2002 19:37:05 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3244563425575049@naggum.no> References: <44d4f61c.0210140635.c78df51@posting.google.com> <44d4f61c.0210142111.af50c27@posting.google.com> <3243680935954446@naggum.no> <87y98zr8pp.fsf@harris.sdo.us.ray.com> <3243694824668424@naggum.no> <3243708171567859@naggum.no> <87k7kjqn0s.fsf@harris.sdo.us.ray.com> <3243717585684194@naggum.no> <3243780812018665@naggum.no> <87k7kip3y2.fsf@harris.sdo.us.ray.com> <3243796678973331@naggum.no> <878z0mzlaw.fsf@mithril.chromatico.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1035574626 14502 129.240.65.5 (25 Oct 2002 19:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Oct 2002 19:37:06 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:44723 * Thomas F. Burdick | I documented the hell out of this system, including both in-depth and | introductory documentation. : | For some reason, people who consider themselves programmers don't mind | being trained users of complex systems where most of the work has already | been done, like Java or Perl -- but if the system doesn't have an O'Reilly | book, they won't go for it. Call Tim and get an animal and their formatting guidelines and produce a mock-up of an O'Reilly book using your documentation that you can give to people who consider themselves programmers but refuse to use your system. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.