Saving Peter Seibel's honor

From: Dave Roberts (ldave_at_droberts.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: 22 Feb 2005 10:54:25 -0800

Now that Peter Siebel is getting close to releasing his book, I
thought that I should speak up. Something, frankly, has been bothering
me about Peter. It isn't his programming skills; those are clearly
top-notch. It isn't even his writing skills; those are clearly up to
the challenge of writing a book. In short, Peter seems like an
intelligent, well-educated purveyer of the programming art. Indeed,
the fact that he has shifted from an early Java disciple to a Lisp
disciple is admirable.

The problem, my friends, is his email signature:

> --
> Peter Seibel peter@javamonkey.com
>
> Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

You see, Peter has not quite made the conversion to full Lisp
master. He's holding on. Clearly, he's conflicted about it. He has a
nice bit of Lisp advocacy in there at the end, but the
"javamonkey.com" address shows he's not quite willing to fully
commit.

Thus, my friends, I have taken the bold step of registering and
parking "lispmonkey.com" for Peter. When he's ready to take the final
plunge, I would urge Peter to contact me and we can finalize the
domain transfer. I pray this will occur before his book goes to press
such that any new Lisp disciples brought to the "one true faith" will
not find their sensei in this state of half commitment. This is
particularly true if Peter has decided to include any "You can contact
the author at: ***@javamonkey.com," statements in his book. 

---
Dave Roberts
dave at findinglisp dot com

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