Re: The Ivory Tower saga was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

2016-04-26 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Raymond Wiker once stated: > > > On 26 Apr 2016, at 05:39 , Swift Griggs wrote: > > > > It's probably a bad idea to dismiss anyone's experience when you haven't > > "walked a mile in his moccasins.", including mine. Though my attempt may > > have been inarticul

Re: The Ivory Tower saga was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

2016-04-26 Thread Seth Morabito
* On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 08:08:37AM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Raymond Wiker wrote: > > If you think that Lisp is an "academic only language", you probably need > > to spend a little time with actually using it. > > Thanks for making my point for me. That seems like a "

Re: The Ivory Tower saga was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

2016-04-26 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Raymond Wiker wrote: > If you think that Lisp is an "academic only language", you probably need > to spend a little time with actually using it. Thanks for making my point for me. -Swift

Re: The Ivory Tower saga was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

2016-04-25 Thread Raymond Wiker
> On 26 Apr 2016, at 05:39 , Swift Griggs wrote: > > It's probably a bad idea to dismiss anyone's experience when you haven't > "walked a mile in his moccasins.", including mine. Though my attempt may > have been inarticulate, I was talking about my own experience in academia > and not tryin

Re: The Ivory Tower saga was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

2016-04-25 Thread ben
On 4/25/2016 9:39 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: You bring the torch for civilization. I'll hunt us up some grub. Maybe we both can live in the world, eh? Don't forget the Skimpy Fur clad Females. -Swift

The Ivory Tower saga was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

2016-04-25 Thread Swift Griggs
First let me say "Wow, what a thoughtful and detailed response." We might not agree, but at least you are civil about it and I appreciate that. On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Brian L. Stuart wrote: > Certainly a lot of people do view it that way, but it's not what I was > getting at or how I see it. Base