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“NETSCAPISM /net-'sca-, pi-z*m/ n (1995): habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from the realization that the Internet was built by and for someone else.”

Erik Naggum

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“Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.”

Erik Naggum

Re: new to lisp (3rd time lucky) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/ef9b57ecc5555931 (Usenet article). Usenet articles

“Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.”

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Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/3576250859e4d4aa (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“A "new" language that differs from the rest of the crop by one or a couple features is proof positive that both what it came from and what it has become are mutations about to die. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of such "languages" that people have invented over the years, for all sorts of weird purposes where they just could not use whatever language they were already using, could not extend it, and could not fathom how to modify its tools without making a whole new language. They never stopped to think about how horribly wasteful this is, they just went on to create yet another language called Dodo, the Titanic, Edsel, Kyoto-agreement …”

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Re: Representing code as XML: the Flare Programming Language http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/ecea40eb1602ce7c (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“More and more, people see that solving any problem is a question of acquiring knowledge and having respect for the cognitive and epistemological processes involved in the human brain: use what you know, learn what you can, and if you have to guess, be aware that you do so you can go back and update your guesses when you (hopefully) learn more.”

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Re: is CLOS reall OO? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/917737b7cc8510e3?dmode=source&output=gplain (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“In C++, reinvention is its own reward.”

Erik Naggum

Re: wretched C++ http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/178f262397afdbb5 (Usenet article). Usenet articles, C++

“If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.”

Erik Naggum

Re: Q: on hashes and counting (Usenet article) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/ba0447f11766db41. Usenet articles, Perl

“The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.”

Erik Naggum

Re: Stalin is not a cool name for software http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/428b1f0fb729d6c7 (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable for any reason, seeking the comfort of those who agree with them, do not contradict them, and take care of their emotions. I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.”

Erik Naggum

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“You have failed to consider the ramifications of the solutions and pose a problem that simply would not exist if you did. This taxes my patience, which is already legendary in its general absence.”

Erik Naggum

Re: XML and lisp http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/06d4be5b6f5bc154 (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.”

Erik Naggum

Re: Lisp Machines considered Inferior http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/e8006d8ddc903c45 (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Life is hard, and then you die.”

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“Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.”

Erik Naggum

Re: perl embedded in emacs http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/msg/9ab7f3307363849a (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Perl

“For some reason, the United States is the only country on Earth where accidents don't happen – it's always somebody's fault, and you can sue that somebody for neglect.”

Erik Naggum

Re: About the usage of throw/catch http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/4a8b7e8d414b6c46 (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.”

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“Languages shape the way we think, or don't.”

Erik Naggum

Re: Search & Replace in sequences http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/baafc407b4bd66f5 (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Whoever decided to use the semicolon to end something should just be taken out and have his colon semified. (At least COBOL and SQL managed to use a period.)”

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Re: Read table modification question. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/e41a53e66cc1572f (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Is it still "artificial intelligence" when the task is to model human stupidity, or would only preventing its devastating consequences get an "AI" rating?”

Erik Naggum

Re: Harlequin was: Re: Is LISP dying? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/4cf16808182eb81e (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something I knew without verbalizing explicitly, that the presentation form we choose communicates real information.”

Erik Naggum

Re: S-exp vs XML, HTML, LaTeX (was: Why lisp is growing) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/9a30c508201627ee (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.”

Erik Naggum

Re: What obstacles do Common Lisp programmers face? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/47a3832fab496eda (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous