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From: Ken Tilton on 19 Dec 2006 04:00 I told someone they should google my name, belatedly thought to check the results. I seem to exist only in quotations and sigs, not all of them from fans. No, this is not immodesty, that would be everything else I post; for this I have a different ulterior motive. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go on eBay and find a Kenny Tilton surf board. Fortune cookie additions (somewhat edited)... % Lisp is no longer the crazy aunt in the attic, she is now out in the front parlor where her admirers come to pay respect and learn. -- Kenny Tilton in comp.lang.lisp on March 31, 2004: % I think it would be harder for a good programmer to change editors than to change languages. � Kenny Tilton in comp.lang.smalltalk % Parentheses? What parentheses? I haven't noticed any parentheses since my first month of Lisp programming. I like to ask people who complain about parentheses in Lisp if they are bothered by all the spaces between words in a newspaper... - Kenny Tilton <tilt(a)liii.com> % Lisp gives you a kazillion ways to solve a problem. (1- kazillion) of them are wrong. - Kenny Tilton % > Yeah. In case you guys didn't quite get it, this particular site > targets (among other things) the Turkish lisp effort. Yours truly and > others have also been accused of being destructive to Turkish youth. They want you to copy them first? -- Ken Tilton <3v4xg.2$LZ7.1(a)fe10.lga> % Horse. Cart. Please note order. -- Ken Tilton <u_U4h.3684$z14.728(a)newsfe08.lga> % My dream of a Cells consulting business is fading as user after user turns out to be hindered not at all by my deliberate withholding of documentation. -- Kenny Tilton in comp.lang.lisp % Lisp nearing the age of fifty is the most modern language out there. GC, dynamic, reflective, the best OO model extant including GFs, procedural macros, and the only thing old-fashioned about it is that it is compiled and fast. -- Kenny Tilton, comp.lang.python % Eight years to do TeX? How smart can he be? He should have used Lisp. -- Kenny Tilton, on Donald Knuth [This one apparently stopped the quoter from trying Lisp.] % Yeah, I'm a gifted guru. Since you called me that, I guess I'll talk to you a little bit. -- Kenny Tilton in comp.lang.lisp [The quoter suspected irony but finally decided I was serious.] % There are no average Lisp programmers. We are the Priesthood. Offerings of incense or cash will do. � Kenny Tilton at comp.lang.lisp %
From: Juan R. on 19 Dec 2006 06:41 Ken Tilton ha escrito: > Lisp is no longer the crazy aunt in the attic, she is now out in the > front parlor where her admirers come to pay respect and learn. > -- Kenny Tilton in comp.lang.lisp on March 31, 2004: (joke "She looks as a respectable 50 year old woman, but sometimes with too much lipstick.") > I think it would be harder for a good programmer to change editors than > to change languages. - Kenny Tilton in comp.lang.smalltalk (joke "except for functional ones where state cannot mutate") > Parentheses? What parentheses? I haven't noticed any parentheses > since my first month of Lisp programming. I like to ask people who > complain about parentheses in Lisp if they are bothered by all the > spaces between words in a newspaper... - Kenny Tilton <tilt(a)liii.com> (joke "I still do not understand why newbies write their LISP code as (a b c d) instead using the beatiful pair notation (a.(b.(c.(d.nil)))) ") > Lisp gives you a kazillion ways to solve a problem. (1- kazillion) of > them are wrong. - Kenny Tilton (joke " (1- kazillion) --> error ") > Lisp nearing the age of fifty is the most modern language out > there. GC, dynamic, reflective, the best OO model extant including > GFs, procedural macros, and the only thing old-fashioned about it > is that it is compiled and fast. -- Kenny Tilton, comp.lang.python (joke "Lisp nearing the age of fifty is the most modern language out there iff one does not count Lisp itself, which is at least so modern.") > Eight years to do TeX? How smart can he be? He should have used Lisp. > -- Kenny Tilton, on Donald Knuth (joke :first "Donald Knuth answered: Kenny Tilton? Who is that?") (joke :second "From OnLisp book: This book was typeset using LATEX, a language written by Leslie Lamport atop Donald Knuth's TEX.") > There are no average Lisp programmers. We are the Priesthood. > Offerings of incense or cash will do. - Kenny Tilton at comp.lang.lisp (joke "True, there is not average use of LISP. "Many PL are called but few are chosen to be popular" Matthew 22:14).
From: Ken Tilton on 19 Dec 2006 11:13 Juan R. wrote: > Ken Tilton ha escrito: > > >>Eight years to do TeX? How smart can he be? He should have used Lisp. >> -- Kenny Tilton, on Donald Knuth > > > (joke :first "Donald Knuth answered: Kenny Tilton? Who is that?") A: The guy you f*cked over by recommending Greenspuns' Tenth: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/17bccec3e1c17d96/e16d42fef2191cc1?lnk=st&q=knuth+lisp+kenny&rnum=7&hl=en#e16d42fef2191cc1 kt -- Algebra: http://www.tilton-technology.com/LispNycAlgebra1.htm "Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd "I'll say I'm losing my grip, and it feels terrific." -- Smiling husband to scowling wife, New Yorker cartoon
From: Juan R. on 19 Dec 2006 12:49 Ken Tilton ha escrito: > Juan R. wrote: > > Ken Tilton ha escrito: > > > > > >>Eight years to do TeX? How smart can he be? He should have used Lisp. > >> -- Kenny Tilton, on Donald Knuth > > > > > > (joke :first "Donald Knuth answered: Kenny Tilton? Who is that?") > > A: The guy you f*cked over by recommending Greenspuns' Tenth: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/17bccec3e1c17d96/e16d42fef2191cc1?lnk=st&q=knuth+lisp+kenny&rnum=7&hl=en#e16d42fef2191cc1 > (joke "Donald Knuth answered again: Who? I did not remembering me writting a check for that kenny")
From: Juan R. on 19 Dec 2006 13:15
Juan R. ha escrito: > Ken Tilton ha escrito: > > > Juan R. wrote: > > > Ken Tilton ha escrito: > > > > > > > > >>Eight years to do TeX? How smart can he be? He should have used Lisp. > > >> -- Kenny Tilton, on Donald Knuth > > > > > > > > > (joke :first "Donald Knuth answered: Kenny Tilton? Who is that?") > > > > A: The guy you f*cked over by recommending Greenspuns' Tenth: > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/17bccec3e1c17d96/e16d42fef2191cc1?lnk=st&q=knuth+lisp+kenny&rnum=7&hl=en#e16d42fef2191cc1 > > > > (joke "Donald Knuth answered again: Who? I did not remembering me > writting a check for that kenny") Sorry, garbage collection was off (joke "Donald Knuth again: Who? I do not remember writting a check for that kenny") |