From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!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 15:53:51 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3244550031398439@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 1035561231 13728 129.240.65.5 (25 Oct 2002 15:53:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Oct 2002 15:53:51 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:44699 * Charlton Wilbur | my plan at this point is to get out as soon as possible. You will not be the first. Many good people have left, already. Some claim that all the really bright people have already left the IT industry. | Cheap mediocrity coupled with buzzword-compliance always seems to win in | the end. Not on the end. When mediocrity takes over, it is because it can. Like, if a herd of grazing animals got sick and could no longer outrun their predators, even the most incompetent predator could catch some, but when the herd was all eaten, the end result is that all but the best predators die of starvation as the best predators would have gone elsewhere. The sad part is that if this process takes too long, the best also get lazy. -- 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.