Re: [FWP] For your amusement

[Tushar Samant <D@i-works.com>]

There is a certain species of people who talk millennial, systematize
beyond their means, and are impractically fastidious. They typically
hold tacit opinions such as: Lisp is simple and the model of thought,
XML will provide the ultimate codification of human knowledge for all
futurity, English syntax is the archetype of all languages, category
theory will solve all mathematical problems, etc etc. This constricts
their world to something so ridiculously limited that they go through
life constantly surprised and grossed out by glimpses of reality. I
don't think this points to any refined aesthetics. It's hubris, plain
and simple. It's a throwback to the kind of metaphysics people produced
when their world WAS small and uniform. Well, now it's about 500 or so
years later. If you can't put up with the fact that dirty systems rigged
by "uneducated" hackers keep on working, or dirty languages empower high-
school kids, third world programmers, women, humanities students, what
have you...then shut up. No one's interested in impotent mutterings of
a beaten man...


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