[FoRK] Re: Arc's out, Nu vs. newLISP, and a retort to Paul Graham's elitism

[Jeff Bone]

I love this response from the reddit thread:

"Yes, that's a good link. One of the reasons I like invoking Family  
Guy's phony-guy in this context is because Holden Caulfield and  
Catcher in the Rye both annoy me, and he parodizes the originals and  
also provides a convenient encapsulation of criticism of the critics  
(if you follow). ...There be depths here!"

Because, of course, most of my invective is a parody of myself.  I  
meant what I said, but if you take me at face value --- your bad. :-)

jb




On Jan 31, 2008, at 1:06 AM, Jeff Bone wrote:

>
> +1, and then some.
>
> Hence my "bad design choices" comment.
>
> I wasn't looking for infamy in my comments, but I think I may have  
> bought it nonetheless...
>
> jb
>
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 4:57 PM, rst at ai.mit.edu wrote:
>
>> Jeff Bone writes:
>>> This thing is ALL about making almost completely superficial tweaks
>>> to the regular Lisp lexicon of terms and forms.
>>
>> Which don't strike me as even well-chosen.  He's using '=' for a
>> generalized assignment operator (like the Common Lisp setf), and not
>> as an equality predicate.  If you write your Lisp code in a mostly
>> functional style, with few side effects (which is at least some
>> peoples' idea of good practice), this won't even save you keystrokes,
>> and it certainly could confuse people.
>>
>> rst
>>
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