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1 Programmers who lock onto a design decision and cling to it in the face of\rcontradictory new information -- well, that's almost everyone in my\rexperience, so I better not say what I think of them or people will start\rsaying bad things about me on c.l.l.\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rThis reminds me of the NYC cabby who accepted a fare to Chicago. When\rthey got there and could not find the friend who was supposed to pay the\rfare he just laughed and said he should have known.\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\r>> Actually, I believe that Aikido, Jazz and Lisp are different appearances\r>> of the same thing.\rYes, the Tao. /Everything/ is a different appearance of the tao.\r -- Ken Tilton\r\r"Ken, I went to the library and read up on Buddhism, and believe me, you\rare no Buddhist."\r -- Kenny's mom\r%\rThat absolutely terrifies the herd-following, lockstep-marching,\rmainstream-saluting cowards that obediently dash out or online to\rscoop up books on The Latest Thing. They learn and use atrocities like\rJava, C++, XML, and even Python for the security it gives them and\rthen sit there slaving away miserably, tediously, joylously paying off\rmortgages and supporting ungrateful teenagers who despise them, only\rto look out the double-sealed thermo-pane windows of their\rcentral-heated, sound-proofed, dead-bolted, suffocating little nests\rinto the howling gale thinking "what do they know that I do not know?"\rwhen they see us under a lean-to hunched over our laptops to shield\rthem from the rain laughing our asses off as we write great code\rbetween bong hits.... what was the question?\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rShut up! (That last phrase has four or more syllables if pronounced as\rintended.)\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rNonsense. You'll be using it for the GUI, not protein-folding.\r -- Ken Tilton\r (responding to a comment that LTK was slow because it\r was based on TK)\r%\rContinuations certainly are clever, but if we learned anything from the\rrejection of the cover art for "Smell the Glove", it is that "there is a\rfine line between stupid... and clever".\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rAh, there's no place like academia for dispassionate, intellectually\rhonest discussion of new ideas on their merits. Thank god for tenure\rgiving your bold antagonist the protection they needed to shout down\ryour iconoclastic..... hang on...\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rWhoever objected must be in my killfile, ...\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rFrom memory (but I think I have it right):\r\r"But Jesus said, Suffer captured variables, and forbid them not, to come\runto thine macro bodies: for of such is are DSLs made."\r -- Ken Tilton\r\rCan I get an Amen?\r%\rAwareness of defect is the first step to recovery.\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rYou made a bad analogy (there are no good ones, but you found a new\rlow) ...\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rYes, it is true that Kent Pitman was raised by a closet full of Lisp\rMachines, but the exception only proves the rule.\r -- Ken Tilton\r (in a postscript after positing that computer\r languages are not learned in infancy)\r%\rI suggest you try bartender's school to support yourself, start\rprogramming for fun again.\r -- Ken Tilton\r (responding to a comment that 98% of anything to do\r with computers was not interesting code)\r%\rYou could add four lanes to my carpal tunnel and I still could not\rwrite all the code I am dying to write.\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rNeutrality? I want to bury other languages, not have a gateway to them.\r -- Ken Tilton\r%\rKen: "Cute puppy. Did you get it for companionship or to pick up chicks?"\rSimon: "Hunh? My puppy /always/ gives me companionship."\r -- Ken Tilton\r (on how he was understood by a native english speaker)\r%\r