In response to both of you:

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:

> ...
>
> I remain confident that there is a thought out, reasonable algorithm
> employed by mk that I am yet ignorant of.
>
> Blake
>
>
If you could point me in the right direction, I'd surely appreciate it.


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:28:21 CST Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:
> >
> > I'd be a better judge if I understood the purposeful, thought out reason
> > behind the problems I am experiencing - assuming there is one.  "That's
> > just the way it works" or "we do it differently because we are not unix"
> > are stupid as hell arguments.
>
> "That's just the way it works" is exactly the right attitude
> to take when you are learning a new language or entering a new
> culture! Expecting the new language/culture/world to be better
> or similar to the old will lead to a lot of frustration and
> slow you down quite a bit. So leave your value judgements at
> the door and just try to understand things *as they are*.
>
> > I remain confident that there is a thought out, reasonable algorithm
> > employed by mk that I am yet ignorant of.
>
>                 Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine
>
>     A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by
>     turning the power off and on.
>
>     Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly:
>     You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no
>     understanding of what is going wrong.
>
>     Knight turned the machine off and on.
>
>     The machine worked.
>
>