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This is exactly what drove me out of the lisp community. There are just too many people that insist on seeing engineering decisions between different sets of tr
by cageface 8y ago
This is exactly what drove me out of the lisp community. There are just too many people that insist on seeing engineering decisions between different sets of trade offs as stark choices between good and evil. Go read some of Eric Naggum’s rants for a really extreme example of this syndrome.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoEric Naggum was one loud extremist. He wasn't the community, but he was so loud and rude (which unfortunately entertains people) that he was was what people thought the community was.
- kazinator 8y ago"The Lisp community" is purely an imaginary construct that only exists because you want it to. "Community" is largely a toxic concept anyway. Oh, we have to have a community. Community this, community that. Nice project, but where is your community? I can't write a line of code without a community! Tired of "community".
- cageface 8y agoNice to see that nothing has changed.
- kazinator 8y agoYou're still seething with hostility with regard to the conditions of a Usenet newsgroup fifteen years ago that is only very lightly active now. Reddit has r/Lisp which is more active and very different from old c.l.l. (Not that it's reasonable to equate r/Lisp with "Lisp community", either.)
- cageface 8y agoNo seething or hostility here. I learned a lot from Lisp.