From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!news.bbnplanet.com!nycmny1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!colt.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Lisp's future Date: 29 Jan 2004 09:34:03 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3284357643535152KL2065E@naggum.no> References: <3284098411103058KL2065E@naggum.no> <866764be.0401270736.3f02f154@posting.google.com> <87broolujb.fsf@g.mccaughan.ntlworld.com> <3284270859149049KL2065E@naggum.no> <873c9zk98g.fsf@g.mccaughan.ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: readme.uio.no 1075368844 21907 129.240.65.203 (29 Jan 2004 09:34:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:34:04 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:11278 * Erann Gat | The problem is not how to convince *me*, the problem is how to | convince people who believe Spolsky. This is only your personal daemon, not a real problem. Just because you are such an unoriginal thinker that you plagiarize other people and then do not even have the moral integrity to accept responsibility for your own actions and reactions, and therefore have zero chance of convincing anyone with a healthy psychology, does not mean that the problems you face are forever someone else's fault. There will never be a shortage of people who believe stupid things. If you make it your modus operandi to excuse your personal failures by looking for one of them and claiming that people believe them instead of you, not a single person, regardless of psychological health, will believe anything you say at all. I don't know if it is possible to teach people personal responsibility and to accept responsibility for how they feel, how they react, and how they act, if they have managed to reach adulthood without ever learning it on their own, so I will have no advice to give to Erann Gat at this or any later date. But it would be good if he could find some other way to absolve himself of responsibility for his actions than to plagiarize something I write. That's just so 2002. -- Erik Naggum | Oslo, Norway 2004-029 Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.