On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:24:42 -0500 Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Tim Daly <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote: > > > > > > On 12/19/2010 8:20 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Tim Daly<d...@axiom-developer.org> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> I didn't mean to imply that other people > >>> don't have the "ah-hah!" experience with > >>> other languages. However, I have only had > >>> the (before lisp)|(after lisp) experience > >>> with lisp. > >>> > >>> Your enlightenment might vary. > >>> > >>> Rich gave his "Whitehead" talk and brought > >>> up the fact that OO languages get several > >>> things wrong. > >> > >> Out of curiosity, which "several things" were these? > > > > http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey > > "Please install Flash Player". > > Has everyone on this list developed a sudden allergy to plain text and > HTML? First I get pointed to a 34-minute video, and now this. A simple > bulleted list with a brief precis about each item would have sufficed; > a multi-megabyte install of an executable and who knows how much > futzing around, overkill. Let me second that - especially since flash isn't available for my normal mail platform, so the kludges required to run it make it even flakier than what Jobs objects to, and tends to hose performance there no end. Yes, somethings may best be presented on video, but all to often people try pass videos off as documentation (*). Even when video is actually the best choice, the least you could do is post something in an actual video format, and not as an executable for a poorly documented, proprietary VM that has had more than one security issue in the past. <mike * A video isn't documentation. I can leave documentation open to the relevant page, and search it for the relevant phrases. A video may be educational, but that doesn't make it documentation. -- Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
