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relevance extracted: A long time ago I hypothesized that the cause of back button not working in an early version of Yahoo! Stores was because th
by klochner 15y ago
relevance extracted:
A long time ago I hypothesized that the cause of back
button not working in an early version of Yahoo! Stores
was because the pages of the wizard were implemented as
if they were subroutines, using a feature of Lisp that
Paul Graham advertised somewhere as a benefit. So now
all of a sudden I'm anti-Paul Graham and anti-Lisp and
anti-FP.
- sparky_z 15y agoI'm sure you didn't intend this, but that's actually a very misleading quote out of context. It reads like he's explaining why he's anti-Paul Gram and anti-Lisp and anti-FP. What he actually means is that people are saying he's those things when he isn't.
- lispisbest 15y agoActually, the context has been deleted and by Joel himself. The OP link to the fogcreek page used to have a lively comments section where Joel was very snippy about Lisp and Paul Graham indeed. He was just being snarky, and didn't sound very smart. I emailed him Paul Graham's lengthy explanation of the usability quirk about the Back button and he modified his previous comments - it's always handy to be the guy who wrote the content management system where the comments are hosted - to include my info and sound less snippy, and essentially took credit for what I showed him. I gather quite a few people remember that discussion, and that's why he's defending myself as being labelled anti-Lisp. He did sound that way, very strongly.
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