From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Lisp is alive, was "Re: Common LISP: The Next Generation" Date: 1996/09/21 Message-ID: <3052297391247606@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 184390536 sender: erik@arcana.naggum.no references: <842908513snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> <323f7b48.3843721@news.primenet.com> <3052030527425472@naggum.no> <843073365snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> <3052137838003931@naggum.no> <843229702snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313; http://www.naggum.no newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp [Cyber Surfer] | I agree that curiosity is vital, but there's a very short supply of it. if you actually think this is true, it would explain why you have so many problems as seem to have. if there is _anything_ that can be used to sort a programmer from your random joe, it is a monumentally higher level of curiosity. people who aren't curious _enough_ don't pursue programming. | BTW, the uk.comp.lang.lisp newsgroup may soon be removed, due to a lack | of posts for the last 3 months. I removed it from the Newsgroups line. "Cyber Surfer" (what a moronic net name!), whatever your real persona is like, please consider whether the only relevant issue in this world is popularity. please consider whether anything of importance is shared by the masses. start with your own personal convictions, ideas, likes and dislikes. would you _want_ them to be in the middle of mainstream? take political ideas -- would you want the political landscape to be _flat_? take practical politics -- would you want the average joe to decide your country's military strategy? and please consider quitting that incessant whining of yours. some of us write ten times as many lines of Common Lisp code for every one of your lines of posted whining. if you don't hear about it, it may well be because any serious Lisper is not interested in suffering your endless list of "buts" and your incredible negativism. maybe Lisp just isn't for you, but by now it is bordering on the bloody obvious that it is not Lisp's fault or even related to Lisp. #\Erik -- those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it