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I just started reading the thread linked from the blog post, and it felt like reading House of Leaves. Here are some choice quotes from various authors: Re Clo

I just started reading the thread linked from the blog post, and it felt like reading House of Leaves. Here are some choice quotes from various authors: Re Clojure: "This is a 'babel' plot to destroy lisp." "Pocket Forth is a free Forth interactive-interpretor that runs fine on my Macintosh "Performa 600" (68030-CPU) System 7.5.5." "The Mac is a desktop-publishing 'appliance' --- considering that you don't have a laser-printer, a Mac is about as useful to you as a bicycle is to a fish. Besides that, you don't seem like the desktop-publishing type of guy --- that is mostly a marketing-department girl thing." "I really foresee the collapse of civilization. The majority of people in America are motivated entirely by hate, fear, greed and envy, and this situation can't continue indefinitely. This is what I describe in my book, 'After the Obamacalypse,' which is included in the slide-rule package on my web-page." Another time I was sitting in my van in a parking lot. A skinny Jew walked up to the van, peered inside, then tried to open the door but discovered that it was locked, so he walked away. I got out and walked over to him, and I said: "What the hell do you think you're doing?" He also said that he thought it was his friend's van, but he didn't apologize at all, but became prideful and belligerent. When I said, "I think you're a thief," he said: "Look at the way you're dressed; you're the thief!" (I was wearing a hoodie). He told me that if I continued bothering him, he was going to call the police, and he got out his cell-phone. When I said, "I think you were looking for something to steal," he said: "There is nothing in your van worth stealing!" I beat him thoroughly with my fists and left him face down on the sidewalk in his own blood. Somewhat belatedly, be began to cry: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" It ends shortly after "Discussion subject changed to 'Whining (was Re: ordered associative arrays)' by John Passaniti."

e40 16y ago
First, what the hell are you talking about?? Second, someone upvoted this??
- neutronicus 16y ago
  1. The blog post links to a thread on comp.lang.lisp, which contains 3 or 4 posts about the shootout but was otherwise just nuts. 2. Eh, cataloging the type of wackos that hang out on comp.lang.lisp is something a lot of people enjoy.
  - stevejohnson 16y ago
    1: Edited my post to have it make more sense 2: I just did not expect to be reading this sort of thing on a Tuesday morning on Hacker News. It caught me completely off guard.
  - siika2000 16y ago
    re: 2. http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/mad-people.html http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/mad-people.html
  - rikthevik 16y ago
    I also enjoy comp.os.linux.advocacy for complete insanity. The fun part is that there's exactly 0 constructive conversation going on. It's all flames, all the time.
KirinDave 16y ago
One of the reasons I left comp.lang.lisp (I used to be part of that community) was because there were so many people there who would, at the slightest provocation, fly off the handle and explain to you their alternative theory of whatever. A lot of crazy people. It seemed like for every Peter Seibel or Kenny Tilton, there were 8 people who had 10% of 100 projects done, were happy to tell you about the anti-lisp conspiracy, and also had alternative health advice.

e40 16y ago

First, what the hell are you talking about?? Second, someone upvoted this??

neutronicus 16y ago
1. The blog post links to a thread on comp.lang.lisp, which contains 3 or 4 posts about the shootout but was otherwise just nuts. 2. Eh, cataloging the type of wackos that hang out on comp.lang.lisp is something a lot of people enjoy.
- stevejohnson 16y ago
  1: Edited my post to have it make more sense 2: I just did not expect to be reading this sort of thing on a Tuesday morning on Hacker News. It caught me completely off guard.
- siika2000 16y ago
  re: 2. http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/mad-people.html http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/mad-people.html
- rikthevik 16y ago
  I also enjoy comp.os.linux.advocacy for complete insanity. The fun part is that there's exactly 0 constructive conversation going on. It's all flames, all the time.

KirinDave 16y ago

One of the reasons I left comp.lang.lisp (I used to be part of that community) was because there were so many people there who would, at the slightest provocation, fly off the handle and explain to you their alternative theory of whatever. A lot of crazy people. It seemed like for every Peter Seibel or Kenny Tilton, there were 8 people who had 10% of 100 projects done, were happy to tell you about the anti-lisp conspiracy, and also had alternative health advice.