So now we're expected to trust the billionaire that gave us a crappy OS and the billionaire that gave us a shitty social media website with eradicating all disease within the next 84 years ?
"Modern medicine is only 100 years old" ? Seriously ?
Before muddying the water for future generations of potential Lisp programmers in this forum please master macros first before spewing unfounded bullshit about their limitations.
1. Macros were never meant to 'offer guidance for improving your semantics' however they are the mechanism that makes it possible to create your own new semantics (which is just not possible in any other family of languages). The semantics that you want to create are often specific to the domain you may be working in. Learn from those who have mastered the domain and created their own semantics and then come up with your own.
2. It's clear that you've been drinking the OO koolaid for a while. Let it go and try really learning macros. Leave the baggage at the door, it's just not required where you can go with macros.
3. Ruby is a badly diluted hack that borrowed some ideas from Lisp and other languages.
No you cannot accomplish in Ruby what is possible with Lisp macros. For a start all the Ruby mechanisms that you suggest execute at runtime. Ruby does not have direct access to it's AST the way that Lisp does.
Lisp and Ruby are not even in the same class of languages. Contrast Ruby with Java, and then yes it looks great.
If your talking about the "hundred-year language" then just forget Haskell.
Lisp is the future, go and learn Qi. Qi has a turing complete type system, this is already light-years beyond what Haskell's type system will ever have.
"It’s also essential to note that all of the aforementioned health benefits of alcohol (such as de-stressing and socializing) can also be achieved for free, such as with meditation or by simply being a good friend."
"Tenure can easily be used to entrench the ideological or scholarly commitments of a department's powerful members, reducing diversity rather than enhancing it."
There may be another reason that Paul and so many others find the shower beneficial for creative thinking :
Every home has a built in natural ionizer -- the shower.
This surfeit of negative ions has long been associated with improvements in mood and physical health. Research conducted in the last decade has begun to support the view that negative ions have a net positive effect on health.
After more than a decade of hanging on and hoping Apple would eventually come around, I'm finally done.
Sold the 9 month old macbook a few weeks ago. I'm dumping the iPhone too shortly.
When someone fronts their own PRIVATE struggles(by attempting to rationalize the way that they earn a living) as PUBLIC philosophy regarding open-source then counter observations will be made. Nothing unusual really.
Once you graduate from your insulated world in academia and spend some time in industry you will realize just how "ignorant" the previous comment is. Profit determines many decisions. The quicker you learn this the better. Or just stay in Academia forever.
Seems like he's trying to rationalize the position that he has had for the last 10+ years. One can imagine that those M$ contracts are brutal, I hope the cash was worth it for his sake.
"Modern medicine is only 100 years old" ? Seriously ?