[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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