On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 07:14 -0600, Grant Rettke wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Lord <[email protected]> wrote: > > I tentatively think my votes go to: > > > > Ray Dillinger > > Aubrey Jaffer > > William D Clinger > > > > I tentatively encourage others to vote the same. > > > > I think the reasons are obvious enough to not need > > more "hot air". > > In my review of the statements I found the three of theirs to fall > into the agitated and highly motivated camp to get things done.
Ok, I'll add some hot air: Dillinger, Jaffer, and Clinger have all displayed very good taste over the years. My impression of their personalities from mailing lists is such that I think they are not used to working with people like one another, but that they would work together very well - a minimum of BS and hidden agendas and good attitudes all around. Jaffer is custodian of a very important (imo) implentation technique. You know, I think he wins the prize for the longest-lived implementation in widespread practical use and that's doubly true if you count Guile, which cribs his and Rady's good architecture (by means of forking their code). Clinger is a fine representative of the academic perspective and a fine representative of the perspective of compiler writers. He's seriously detail-oriented and he's "sophisticated" in the sense of being the kind of person really needed for a formal process like this. He's a total pro. Dillinger is just consistently (mostly, imo) "right" about a lot of fine points in language design and tends to not take guff. He's intellectually in both the academic and pragmatic worlds and he has a talent for cutting through nonsense, even though people don't always listen to him when they ought to. If elected, they will need some serious community support to be effective but, given such support, I think they would have a good chance of "kicking ass and taking names", so to speak. Vote Clinger, Dillenger, Jaffer. -t _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
