From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <422c2c66f1d93f0928ca31b8c1e0c927@hamnavoe.com> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:36:58 -0700 Message-ID: <7d3530220909050736h693c665ere5b8346c4569c7e1@mail.gmail.com> From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 658d8b1c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Eris Discordia wrote: >>>> One serious question today would be: what's LISP _really_ good for? >> >> http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html > > I could do a similar thing: > > > > ... and leave you wondering (or not). I won't. > Oh, yay, a Xah Lee quote, he's surely a trusted source on all things Lisp. Didja read his page about hiring a prostitute in Las Vegas? Or the one about how he lives in a car in the Bay Area because he's too crazy to get hired? John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike