[plt-scheme] Hit People Over the Head with HtDP

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> I've been through phases of advocacy, but the languages advocacy space is
> *so saturated* with wanking from narrow experience that the marketplace of
> ideas is more like a sleazy bathhouse.
>
> My attitude now, having been doing this for decades, is one of no longer
> being interested in 99% of people's perspectives on languages or software
> development.  "*Read this one document*, and ask on the list if you get
> stuck anywhere.  Or don't, but stop telling me about your 'python' and your
> navel-gazing theories.  I'm all set with that myself." :)

Hear, bloody, hear.

Mike