In comp.lang.lisp r <rt8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Face it, the world needs people like Xah. Go check out his site, his > insights of languages and tech is fascinating. The man lives in a > world driven by common sense, and you know what they say --"Common > sense is the least most common thing"-- just look around at the > responses here. Might hold true for some rants, but most of it's tl;dr drivel. For instance, his critique of Lisp's homoiconicity is completely off-target.
> I come from a different world than IT, and I thought initially the IT > world would be filled with intelligent, free thinking, and open minded > people... BOY was i wrong! I would not turn my back on these people > for a second, lest you catch a knife in it! So-called "IT" is driven by capitalistic impulses. Dijkstra and his followers get dismissed as ivory tower intellectuals. FUT warning. -- You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again. -- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
