Your message was perhaps one of the strangest pieces of email I have ever received. Although it is flattering to have a ``fan club'', in fact, it is a very bad idea. Unlike most of human society, science and engineering are based on the idea that each of us is capable of evaluating evidence and thinking on our own. Each of us can do experiments, work out the reasoning, and determine the truth for ourselves. There is no room in science or engineering for ``fans'' representing group approval over individual thought. One of my heros, Galileo, put it very well:
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I am pleased to talk with people about matters of science or engineering, so you and your colleagues may certainly send me mail. I hope to learn as much from your experiences as you may learn for me. But please get rid of the ``cult of personality'' way of thinking. It is unscientific and ultimately destructive.
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Anonymous2008-02-18 4:17
>>79
This is what EMACSers do instead of writing code.
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Anonymous2008-02-18 20:24
It is said of The Sussman that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.
>>83 Sussman is god. You are the asshole. Realizing this is the first step on the long and arduous path to Satori.
-- SICP, 2nd Edition
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Anonymous2008-02-19 17:08
>>87 Sussman is god. You are the asshole. Realizing this is the first step on the long and arduous path to Satori.
-- SICP, 2nd Edition
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Anonymous2008-02-19 17:15
>>84 I will predict the future in a future edition
-- SICP, -1st Edition
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Anonymous2008-02-19 17:50
It is said of The Sussman that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he celebrated.
― SICP, 3rd Edition
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Anonymous2008-02-19 17:58
I don't know who this Susmann person is, but he should lay of the weed.
s /prog/ would tell you, READ SICP, ACHIEVE SATORI.
i lol'd im from /sci/ hai /prog/ still doing inferior math?
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Anonymous2008-12-15 22:46
We don't need the SUSSMAN. We have FJÖLNIR, the programming language for REAL MEN.
*
"GRUNNUR"
;
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Anonymous2008-12-15 22:53
Fjölnir (programming language)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fjölnir (also Fjolnir or Fjoelnir) is a programming language developed by professor Snorri Agnarsson of computer science at Háskóli Íslands that was mostly used in the 1980s. The source files most often have the extension fjo.
Hello world example
;; Hello world in Fjölnir
"hello" < main
{
main ->
stef(;)
stofn
skrifastreng(;"Hello, world!"),
stofnlok
}
*
"GRUNNUR"
;
all of a sudden, the "GRUNNER" meme is now hilarious
2. Fjölnir (also Fjolnir or Fjoelnir) is a programming language developed by professor Snorri Agnarsson of computer science at Háskóli Íslands that was mostly used in the 1980s. programming language developed by professor Snorri Agnarsson of computer science at Háskóli Íslands at Háskóli Íslands Háskóli