[rescue] fans fans fans...
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Jun 21 11:24:03 CDT 2002
On June 21, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> A true guru will scrap the existing OS entirely and code a new one all
> in lisp. They will be allowed to borrow from existing lisp projects
> as they exist, and they will be encouraged to figure out how to make
> their lisp OS seamlessly support at a minimum Common Lisp, Scheme, and
> elisp. If they want to reuse a window manager, they will be encourage
> to also build a REP engine, and port the smarts of Sawfish to run on
> top. Bonus points for getting S-Graphics to run seemlessly on top of
> their system.
<troll>
You mean the COLLEGE guru. The only real-world stuff I've ever
seen done with Lisp are emacs and AutoCAD. The rest of it seems to be
impractical ivory-tower but-sir-I-thought-this-was-just-an-exercise
bullshit.
</troll>
-Dave, ducking and running
--
Dave McGuire "Needing a calculator indicates that
St. Petersburg, FL your .emacs file is incomplete." -Joshua Boyd
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