At 9:40 PM +0100 1/18/02, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
>Dear Mongers,
> I picked up the DDJ in the Harvard coop today, lloking for a read during
>my coffee break and who do I see on the cover ? Boston.pm's famed Dan
>Sugalski.
I'm not quite that photoshopped in real life. (They apparently
squished the vertical a bit) Neither is Shriram nearly that menacing
(Scheme fervor aside) and last time I checked Simon doesn't fade off
into whiteness. At least not without a lot of smoke in a room. :)
> I went over the article during my break and it looks like Dan causes
>scandal in an MIT seminar on lightweight languages by admitting that he does
>not know something (gasp!). I know, it is such an unbecoming attitude in MIT
>;-)
Oddly enough, I didn't, really. And the audio, which is on there
somewhere, came out pretty well. The lack of contact with reality was
pretty evident in a lot of the participants and attendees. (Me too, I
expect, though I'd be the next to last to know)
Most of the heat came on the mailing list afterwards. Now *that* was
a flamefest.
> Want to share with us some impressions from the seminar ?
It was good, and Evil Mike should never be allowed around Liquid
Nitrogen. If he is, I recommend being somewhere else. I really,
*really* hope that there's an LL2.
Also, CS undergrads shouldn't be allowed near real-world systems
without someone standing by with a big stick. (The best way to
implement an accounting or CAD system is *not* to start with first
principles of computer science and work out from there. I'm afraid I
browbeat a poor undergrad some when he pulled that one out on me)
--
Dan
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