Arguably, Paul Graham's essay has been very influential
and was the seed crystal that put Lisp into the spotlight.
I noticed that Lisp moved from belittled fringe player
to radical chic since then. However, I'm under the impression
that not much has changed in terms of technology and
community efforts. Peter Seibel's admirable book and
promising current gardeners-project is the only exception,
but I might have missed something. If so, what? Maybe
it's too early to tell, but I don't have the feeling
that Lisp's handicaps have been alleviated since April 2001
when "Beating the averages" came out. But maybe I'm
wrong because I was looking at the wrong places.
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Re: OT: Bush insults BBC Editor ... Here you prove that you have absolutely no clue how academia works. ... Given the furor which has arisen over the past week concerning my 2001 essay, "Some People Push Back," I feel it inappropriate that I continue in my position as Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies. ... but it was the public spotlight that this essay brought to Chruchill that lead to other investigations and allegations of misconduct... (rec.arts.theatre.musicals)
Re: OT: Bush insults BBC Editor ... stating that O'Reilly's relentless pursuit of Churchill on his TV and Radio show were what brought the spotlight onto the Professor forcing the Universtiy to deal with that which they would have much preferred to sweep under the rug. ... Here you prove that you have absolutely no clue how academia works. ... Given the furor which has arisen over the past week concerning my 2001 essay, "Some People Push Back," I feel it inappropriate that I continue in my position as Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies. ... The essay to which he refers is the one where Churchill called the 3,000 people slaughtered on 9/11 "Little Eichman's". ... (rec.arts.theatre.musicals)
Re: Latest version of !Draw ... I think they're both in the spotlight quite well. ... I'm not entering the argument of the politics that Paul seems to ... successes - but none relate directly to active development,... (comp.sys.acorn.misc)
Re: OS X crash - Spotlight? ... Thanks Paul.... I hadn't looked at the Spotlight privacy settings until now. ... I will add a few other folders that never need indexing as well - including the external hard drive I use for backup purposes and video editing. ... MS and Apple are working on it and the fix will come in an Apple ... (microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc)
Re: Boppo? ... Little Paul wrote: ... - It's not a book, it's an essay.... my webcam must have been off so you couldn't see my tongue firmly ... planted in my cheek.... (rec.juggling)
