Some people seem to think "a task described in a phD thesis" implies "a phD-level task". "Oh, crap, dude! This expects me to read a phD thesis! I'd better wait

Some people seem to think "a task described in a phD thesis" implies "a phD-level task". "Oh, crap, dude! This expects me to read a phD thesis! I'd better wait until somebody on reddit summarizes a blog post about a blog post about it." By that logic, implementing Lisp is "a phD-level task", too. (http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/orbit-thesis.pdf http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/orbit-thesis.pdf) (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/papers/3imp.pdf http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/papers/3imp.pdf) (http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AITR-474.pdf http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AITR...) * * The third is actually a masters thesis, but whatever.