Re: Just can't hear enough about Cells?

On Wed, 31 May 2006 02:29:26 -0400, Ken Tilton <kentilton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jdunrue@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

It seems to me (maybe nobody else sees it this way) that
the following analogy holds:

Lisp programmers : Cells :: non-Lisp programmers : Lisp

Nonsense. Steel's PhD thesis, Garnet KR, AutoCAD, COSI... Lispniks are
all over the dataflow paradigm.

Nope, I still think the analogy holds. Cells has got example code
and commentary (I personally have taken advantage of it so I know
that's true), so I don't really agree with folks who criticize your
work on that front. I just think the concept is more of a challenge
than you realize.

I have witnessed this same phenomenon before, you know: some smart
dude comes up with a very powerful design and proceeds to get very
frustrated because no one around him/her seems to get it, despite
being very talented themselves. I'm not referring to myself, btw,
it was somebody I was working with and I was one of the folks driving
that person up a wall.

As for Pythonistas and Lisp -- are you not aware that Python is getting
GF's in 3.0? They love Lisp! They even have "decorators" (guess), a MOP,
and Norvig.

Jack, try to keep up, will ya?

:)

I haven't really been following Python developments, so I
guess I deserved that :-) Good for them!

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Jack Unrue
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