Erik Naggum: Quotes about people

Erik Naggum was Norwegian computer programmer. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Erik Naggum: 236 quotes2 likes

“… it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.”

Erik Naggum

Re: is CLOS reall OO? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/07310c842fea847c (Usenet article). Usenet articles, C++

“"Code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.”

Erik Naggum

Re: realistic but short and simple LISP examples? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/29f678c98842ea2d (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.”

Erik Naggum

Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6dd13ffe0e273031 (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.”

Erik Naggum

Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6670472eec71d00e (Usenet article). Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“Some people are not much more than herd animals, which rot together when the world becomes uncomfortable… I am not one of them. If I had a motto, it would probably be: The herd over there, I here”

Erik Naggum

translated from Norwegian with google Source: Kranglefant på nettet https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/kranglefant-pa-nettet/65497877 (Publisert lørdag 09. januar 1999 - 09:18)