From: Tel A.
Subject: slime initialization messages
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:09:55 +0000
Message-ID: <1144606194.952053.311760@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Just out of curiosity, where do those encouraging init messages slime
shows come from? I used to have a hunch it was based on which
implementation you loaded, but no longer.

"Hacks and glory await!"
"This could be the start of a beautiful program."

From: Bill Atkins
Subject: Re: slime initialization messages
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:17:45 +0000
Message-ID: <87k69y396e.fsf@rpi.edu>

"Tel A." <············@gmail.com> writes:

> Just out of curiosity, where do those encouraging init messages slime
> shows come from? I used to have a hunch it was based on which
> implementation you loaded, but no longer.
>
> "Hacks and glory await!"
> "This could be the start of a beautiful program."

From the variable slime-words-of-encouragement in slime.el (grep is
your friend).