tilton_utf8_crlf.txt - clic - Clic is an command line interactive client for gopher written in Common LISP (HTM) git clone git://bitreich.org/clic/ git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/clic/ (DIR) Log (DIR) Files (DIR) Refs (DIR) Tags (DIR) README (DIR) LICENSE --- tilton_utf8_crlf.txt (3770B) --- 1 Programmers who lock onto a design decision and cling to it in the face of 2 contradictory new information -- well, that's almost everyone in my 3 experience, so I better not say what I think of them or people will start 4 saying bad things about me on c.l.l. 5 -- Ken Tilton 6 % 7 This reminds me of the NYC cabby who accepted a fare to Chicago. When 8 they got there and could not find the friend who was supposed to pay the 9 fare he just laughed and said he should have known. 10 -- Ken Tilton 11 % 12 >> Actually, I believe that Aikido, Jazz and Lisp are different appearances 13 >> of the same thing. 14 Yes, the Tao. /Everything/ is a different appearance of the tao. 15 -- Ken Tilton 16 17 "Ken, I went to the library and read up on Buddhism, and believe me, you 18 are no Buddhist." 19 -- Kenny's mom 20 % 21 That absolutely terrifies the herd-following, lockstep-marching, 22 mainstream-saluting cowards that obediently dash out or online to 23 scoop up books on The Latest Thing. They learn and use atrocities like 24 Java, C++, XML, and even Python for the security it gives them and 25 then sit there slaving away miserably, tediously, joylously paying off 26 mortgages and supporting ungrateful teenagers who despise them, only 27 to look out the double-sealed thermo-pane windows of their 28 central-heated, sound-proofed, dead-bolted, suffocating little nests 29 into the howling gale thinking "what do they know that I do not know?" 30 when they see us under a lean-to hunched over our laptops to shield 31 them from the rain laughing our asses off as we write great code 32 between bong hits.... what was the question? 33 -- Ken Tilton 34 % 35 Shut up! (That last phrase has four or more syllables if pronounced as 36 intended.) 37 -- Ken Tilton 38 % 39 Nonsense. You'll be using it for the GUI, not protein-folding. 40 -- Ken Tilton 41 (responding to a comment that LTK was slow because it 42 was based on TK) 43 % 44 Continuations certainly are clever, but if we learned anything from the 45 rejection of the cover art for "Smell the Glove", it is that "there is a 46 fine line between stupid... and clever". 47 -- Ken Tilton 48 % 49 Ah, there's no place like academia for dispassionate, intellectually 50 honest discussion of new ideas on their merits. Thank god for tenure 51 giving your bold antagonist the protection they needed to shout down 52 your iconoclastic..... hang on... 53 -- Ken Tilton 54 % 55 Whoever objected must be in my killfile, ... 56 -- Ken Tilton 57 % 58 From memory (but I think I have it right): 59 60 "But Jesus said, Suffer captured variables, and forbid them not, to come 61 unto thine macro bodies: for of such is are DSLs made." 62 -- Ken Tilton 63 64 Can I get an Amen? 65 % 66 Awareness of defect is the first step to recovery. 67 -- Ken Tilton 68 % 69 You made a bad analogy (there are no good ones, but you found a new 70 low) ... 71 -- Ken Tilton 72 % 73 Yes, it is true that Kent Pitman was raised by a closet full of Lisp 74 Machines, but the exception only proves the rule. 75 -- Ken Tilton 76 (in a postscript after positing that computer 77 languages are not learned in infancy) 78 % 79 I suggest you try bartender's school to support yourself, start 80 programming for fun again. 81 -- Ken Tilton 82 (responding to a comment that 98% of anything to do 83 with computers was not interesting code) 84 % 85 You could add four lanes to my carpal tunnel and I still could not 86 write all the code I am dying to write. 87 -- Ken Tilton 88 % 89 Neutrality? I want to bury other languages, not have a gateway to them. 90 -- Ken Tilton 91 % 92 Ken: "Cute puppy. Did you get it for companionship or to pick up chicks?" 93 Simon: "Hunh? My puppy /always/ gives me companionship." 94 -- Ken Tilton 95 (on how he was understood by a native english speaker) 96 %