I'm back from vacation in New Zealand and Australia, and had a great
time. I did have a chance to meet Paul Foley after all, and we had a
nice talk over dessert at Aukland's quay on Princess Wharf.
Now, to validate this article as on-topic to lisp, I'll mention that
I still have to finish up the approximately 1800 articles that have
queued in c.l.l, before I post any of my own.
How is that on-topic to lisp? Well, I recall in years past that a
three-week vacation (by extrapolation only - this is my first _ever_
three-week vacation :-) might yield at most 100 or 200 articles on
this newsgroup. I also recall at such times that some of the "lisp
is dead" pessimists were citing the lack of traffic here as proof of
their claim. And given the high signal-to-noise ratio (for the most
part) that I've seen so far, I think that 1800 articles is _very_
encouraging.
It's now been a day and a half, and besides the 2300 email messages
I've been whittling down, I have a little less than 1000 articles to
go. I can see that I have some simple-streams questions and comments
to answer, but I won't do that until I catch up, so it will take a few
days.
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Phone: (510) 548-3600; FAX: (510) 548-8253 ·····@Franz.COM (internet)
... Well, I have been back from a 4 days vacation and just decided to
mark all the articles as "read" :)
Anyway, just to let you know, I kind of think that the traffic on this
newsgroup is about 1/3 that of comp.lang.python.
I do not think that that is that bad either.
Now back to work.
Cheers
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Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com> wrote in message news:<·············@beta.franz.com>...
> How is that on-topic to lisp? Well, I recall in years past that a
> three-week vacation (by extrapolation only - this is my first _ever_
> three-week vacation :-) might yield at most 100 or 200 articles on
> this newsgroup. I also recall at such times that some of the "lisp
> is dead" pessimists were citing the lack of traffic here as proof of
> their claim. And given the high signal-to-noise ratio (for the most
> part) that I've seen so far, I think that 1800 articles is _very_
> encouraging.
Ah but everyone knows high newsgroup traffic means that the topic is
dead, because it's all just futile off-topic flamage.
It is, of course, an axiom of c.l.l that
all x: x => dead(lisp)
I would express this in Lisp, but I can't because it's dead, of
course.
--tim
(actually, I'm reduced to reading news via google for the time being
(ssh lossage) and c.l.l has its little signal strength bar thingy
right up.)
* Tim Bradshaw
| Ah but everyone knows high newsgroup traffic means that the topic is
| dead, because it's all just futile off-topic flamage.
Newsgroup volume is a measure of discontent.
///
--
The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture
has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are
more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is
changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.
Erik Naggum <····@naggum.net> writes:
> * Tim Bradshaw
> | Ah but everyone knows high newsgroup traffic means that the topic is
> | dead, because it's all just futile off-topic flamage.
>
> Newsgroup volume is a measure of discontent.
Much better discontent than apathy.
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Duane Rettig Franz Inc. http://www.franz.com/ (www)
1995 University Ave Suite 275 Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 548-3600; FAX: (510) 548-8253 ·····@Franz.COM (internet)
In article <·············@beta.franz.com>, Duane Rettig
<·····@franz.com> wrote:
> I'm back from vacation in New Zealand and Australia, and had a great
> time.
Oh! Did you get to Wellington? I wish I'd known.
-- Bruce