Re: Why Lisp is too hard for me to use

From: Pascal Costanza (costanza_at_web.de)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:06:07 +0100

Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:

> I understand benevolent dictator to mean someone who builds a fairly
> open and tiered community process with which one forces herself to
> publicly justify her own decisions but usually reserves the final
> fiat. Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall are examples.

Yes, I know. But what's the point?

> (I think the
> original Moz team described itself as such, but the way they put it,
> it wasn't clear to me then.)
>
> A fascist is different in a matter of degree.

The difference is only very marginal. Just start a discussion on adding
macros to Python in comp.lang.python and you'll see. ;)

"The Guru Papers" by Kramer/Alstad is a good read on these issues.

>>You need some way to modify the dock. Maybe they didn't find the best,
>>but who cares.
>
> Hmm, I think MacOS X should not be a "who cares" platform.

Well, it isn't. The dock is an example of an element in the Mac OS X GUI
that is only good enough, and that's a pity. But a) it is not
representative, and b) it still works. If you care a lot, there are many
replacement utilities for the dock out there.

> I just hope the user didn't drag off Sherlock, if it's possible. ;)

I don't use Sherlock anymore. They have moved the important
functionality to the Finder.

> Again, I agree with the details. But my conclusion differs.

That's ok with me. ;)

Pascal 

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