David Brown wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:49:25PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
I wouldn't worry about it. Quoting:
http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20080128/048243.html
You even chose some of the nicer comments, perhaps
Well, I was more interested in substantive comments about the things
that people are crying for in a modern language.
<http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20080128/048259.html>:
"We all make mistakes, but few of us are so vocal about how everyone
else makes mistakes or how we are going to correct them all. He has
basically called every non-lisp programmer a looser, then said that all
lisp users are misguided too but he will bring them to salvation.
Unfortunately his salvation has the appearance of something a novice
writes in a SICP course. Basically he is a braggart and people are
enjoying the opportunity to call him on it."
So, in other words, have fun and play in SICP, but don't announce the hacks
you make as the answer to the worlds programming problems :-)
The worst part was the he wasted a real opportunity.
Lisp has a long history of half-baked, half-assery ("Let's reinvent the
wheel! And not test it!").
Paul Graham had the resources and clout to break out of it.
Even if he had just had some student hacker port the Termite message
passing system (effectively Erlang for Lisp) or created a couple
well-tested standard libraries, he would have been hailed as a visionary.
But, you know, that's ... like ... *WORK*.
-a
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