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The lisp community has a nice history about not being a very welcoming place, with a lot of people looking up to the nice attitude of people like Erik Naggum.
by bjoli 8y ago
The lisp community has a nice history about not being a very welcoming place, with a lot of people looking up to the nice attitude of people like Erik Naggum.
Things have gotten a lot better though.
- lispm 8y agoErik Naggum was not 'the Lisp community', though there were some people worshipping him on comp.lang.lisp - both from inside Lisp and outside. comp.lang.lisp was a popular forum, but not THE Lisp community. I always thought that his online behavior was kind of an ugly personality disorder.
- bjoli 8y agoI know. I should ha en put it more eloquently. But as you said, there were some people that idolised him. I found that for a long time people trying to learn lisp were confronted with really bad attitude from a loud minority. It really didn't really make people feel welcome. I am but a visitor in lisp land (I work in CL a couple of times a year), and things have become noticeably nicer since 2010.