Subject: Re: some stuff about the 2002 International Lisp Conference in SF From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 09 Nov 2002 16:58:58 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3245849938542275@naggum.no> * Andre van Meulebrouck | You lost me there. I have no idea what you're talking about. I find it rather alarming that you first realize this but then blithely assume that you understood my second point, which was evidently even more lost on you than the first. | You don't want to STAND OUT; you want to FIT IN, GET ON BOARD, and play | ball with the neighborhood kids. | | You do not want to be a LISP snob or a prima Dona! I now realize that you have been hurt in some way that is orthogonal to any programming language issues and that your personal fear of being different is underlying your decisions. I have absolutely no such fear and I cannot even relate to the experience. Life is not some democratic experiment where people agree to go and die if they are voted down, and neither is it the converse: You do not tell other people to go and die if they disagree with you. But this will probably also be lost on you, given the frantic tone of your response, so I have no intention of changing your mind on this. (Which reminds me that I should finish that response to Pascal Costanza...) Anyway, who else have succeeded, using your proposed methodology of letting somebody else take all your important decisions? -- 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. Now showing on CNN: Harry Potter and the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction