Pierre-Francois, I think you're fine--your first introduction seemed to post just fine. I don't know of any problems with gmail, but, that said, I am using gmail for the first time and I am finding the way they do the conversation threads confusing. The first post I made I had to go the gardeners archive to make sure it showed up otherwise I would have never seen it in my gmail account.
Christopher On 12/15/05, Pierre-François Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying again because it didn't get through the first time : is there a > known problem with gmail ? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Pierre-François Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: 15 déc. 2005 17:57 > Subject: Introducing myself > To: [email protected] > > Hello all ! > > I came to lisp through the Free Software door, slightly more than two > years ago, just after having ominously declared to a co-worker > (discussing emacs config files) that I would *never* get used to such an > old-fashioned language and its silly parenthesis ! Somehow this naive > declaration triggered me into having a closer look at it :) > > I've also been around (I mean : reading your docs, blogs, postings, ...) > for about the same time, though I've been quite silent, preferring to > tackle my problems alone, and occasionally sending a mail to the author > of this or that project, asking for advice or submitting a patch. > > This isn't the most efficient way to learn, granted, but I'm more of the > RTFM and self-taught type and as someone said earlier : there wasn't > really such a thing as a lisp community... until now :) > > I play with lisp on free time only : so far, I've been working a couple > of times as a computer scientist (programming in C) and in a series of > jobs completely unrelated to CS. > > My only real "exposure" to other lispers was at the 2004 edition of the > libre software meeting in Bordeaux (where I live). At that time, I was > really new to lisp and getting more and more frustrated by some of the > issues that led to the creation of this list. > > But the guys I met there [1] ! Just seeing how they were using their > lisp, and how productive they seemed to be, renewed my interest in > lisp :) Since then, I went on practicing lisp, experimenting a lot of > project ideas for the sake of learning this or that aspect of lisp. > > As of today, I don't consider myself as a newbie anymore, but I realize > I still have a long way to go : in short, I think I'm at an intermediate > level :) > > I started a not-so-pet project (a gtd web app, using LoL and UCW) but I > put it on hold recently in order to achieve another one, on which it > depends : bringing at least an hint of some order into my Real Life, so > that I can have enough free time (and credibility, too) to finish and > use this app :) > > As for the frustrating aspects of lisp : I sincerely hope that we can do > something about this and until I can have more free time, I'm quite sure > that I will be able to handle some non-coding issues (most notably this > wiki-gardening stuff that has been bugging me, too). > > I spent the most part of this morning reading this mailing list. Duh ! I > may be optimistic, but if you still have half the energy and motivation > you had when writing these posts, I think we're in for a great change > (btw : all hail Peter ! :) > > As for my ideas and suggestions, I'm preparing a second email : this one > is already longer than I intended (in short : how about some kind of a > bug tracking system to have some visibility of our progress ?). > > [1] Attendees at > http://www.cliki.net/Libre%20Software%20Meeting%202004 > > -- Pierre-François > > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > > > -- Christopher Roach [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
