I had no problem with your comment. My reply was somewhat tongue in cheek (though I really don't like Che Guevara). I do like the idea of liberating languages that are hiding in all kinds of places and thats' what Racket is about.
-- Matthias On Feb 10, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Norman Gray wrote: > > Robby (and Matthias), hello. > > On 2013 Feb 10, at 21:05, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > >> Is this intended to be sarcastic? Do you believe the creators of something >> (that they give away even) are not free to plan for its future? > > Sarcastic? Ermmm, no, it was not intended to be sarcastic. Really not. > Indeed, in a couple of decades of posting via uucp and smtp I think this may > be the bit of any text I've written which has been most diametrically > misunderstood. > > My remark was intended to be straightforwardly laudatory. Matthias's call > seems a fine manifesto for a better and highly parenthesised future, and the > sort of thing that should probably end up blu-tacced to somebody's wall, with > or without a highly contrasty picture of Matthias (who may or may not be > photogenic, I don't know). > > I see that Matthias says: > >> I see myself much more as the Milton Friedman of the Lisp family than some >> fake clone of a murderer-terrorist :-) > > Friedman and the Chicago School? Hmm, I'm not entirely sure where we're > going there. > > Guevara? I was intending to invoke iconic optimism rather than the messy > intricacies of brute history, and bracketing this with 'We hold these > truths...' was intended to evoke other iconic optimisms (rather than messy > intricacies). However I think this may have been a poor choice, since he > (and as it turns out Friedman) are figures with radically different valencies > here and in the various Americas, and are ipso facto a poor choice for > apothegms. > > I don't think those valencies are obviously useful to discuss on-list. In > case it's not clear: any negative personal connotations a reader detects in > these remarks, that reader should consider retracted. > > Oh dear.... > > Best wishes, > > Norman > > > -- > Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk > SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK > ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
