[Gardeners] Here I am

[Ron Lusk]

The newsgroup comp.lang.lisp<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/topics>appears
to be alive and well, and as "simple Lisp programmer" Ken Tilton has
been quoted to say

We live here. Every week we see noobs stumble in the door, trip over the
upturned rug, bang their heads on the same too-low hanging lamp, then ease
into Lisp pretty easily after being pointed to Lisp-aware editors, Slime,
PCL, etc etc, directed by living Lisp Gods, dynamic and interactive, not
some two-dimensional billboard of an FAQ that just raises more questions.
    -- Ken Tilton <3knbh.145$hE2.142 at newsfe11.lga>

so I'd hang around comp.lang.lisp instead.  This mailing list does seem to
be a bit on the dead side.  When I first saw the [Gardeners] tag in the
subject, I wondered if this was spam.



On 10/17/07, Nicolas Martyanoff <khaelin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a 21 years old french student which has just discovered Lisp. I've
> been astonished by this language; I've been practicing C, C++, Perl,
> Python and Php for years, and this is the first time I find a language
> so harmonious and graceful.
>
> However, I'm badly deceived that there is no real community. I'm coming
> here without hope, since I see the history of the mailing-list (no
> post...).
>
> I've been doing a lot of Google searchs to find some stable libraries,
> and most of the libs I found were abandoned, hardly ever finished.
>
> In this context, it's really difficult to be motivated about working
> with Lisp. It's a language very tempting, but it seems it has no future.
>
> Anyway, I want to believe in Lisp, and I want to use it (I'm working on
> an online 2D RTS video game, and would want to use Lisp for server and
> client).
>
> So, here I am :)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Martyanoff
>    http://codemore.org
>    khaelin at gmail.com
>
>

-- 
Ron Lusk
ronlusk at alum.mit.edu
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