On Jun 26, 10:52 am, Bjorn Borud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Robert Uhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > | > | Agreed. Stallman got sidetracked by Scheme, which IMHO was a > | dead-end. > > too many people buying SICP and believing what they heard about it > being an important book. I too spent some time exploring Scheme, or > should I say, wasted some time, years ago, and nothing came of it > other than a profound irritation. these people seemed to be > completely disconnected from reality. > > Scheme, and thus Guile, might have been a viable path if these people > had only been practical instead of stubbornly insisting on being odd.
Some people might say the same thing about emacs. A lot of unix tools even. "Stubbornly insisting on being odd" appears to be a particularly prevalent character flaw among the geeknoscenti. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
