From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Design patterns for Lisp References: <878zct1o7g.fsf@noetbook.telent.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3216201529585621@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 13:18:50 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1007212730 193.71.66.49 (Sat, 01 Dec 2001 14:18:50 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 14:18:50 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:21630 * Software Scavenger | If Lisp gains a reputation for making people rich, it will quickly become | popular. Paul Graham is just one person, not enough to give Lisp such a | reputation. We need hordes of Lisp millionaires. Provided at least a majority of them are satisfied with the language that made them rich and do not feel the urge to create their own pet languages. | Why don't we already have hordes of Lisp millionaires? Perhaps because they do not want to credit Lisp with it? /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.