Clojure Protocols & expression problem

[Ellery Newcomer]

Walter, you shouldn't be apologizing to retard. These personal attacks 
are just not acceptable on a public forum and coming from an adult.

Instead, I think you should be more like him.

On 04/29/2010 03:25 PM, retard wrote:
> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:21:15 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm sorry you'd have to use D if you don't want to, but it is a positive
>> sign that D is catching on in the business world.
>
> It's positive that you sometimes write a reply. What saddens me is it's
> mostly about *my* personal issues.
>
> I've always given at least two ways to continue the discussion. The posts
> also contain valid technical issues, much more than some of the most
> desperate bikeshedding here. It's sad that instead of improving the
> language and enriching the intellectual capacity of the active members,
> you concentrate on ad-hoc personal attacks and on the most irrelevant
> parts of the posts.
>
> I wonder what is causing all this. Have you started to consider everyone
> with knowledge about programming languages a threat? Wanna hear my
> secret? After 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of daily job, and 3 to 4 hours of
> other chores, I have a small amount of time to read reddit [1],
> wikipedia, blogspot [2], and sometimes the abstracts (and if it makes any
> sense, perhaps part of the discussion) from LtU [3]. Maybe also 2 to 3
> larger PL related books (e.g. [4]) per year. If I still have more spare
> time, I might read the newsgroup here or write some code. That's about it
> - a rather harmless hobby. If that places me to the ivory tower along
> with bearded, funny looking, smelly old men, I should probably take heed
> and spend more time lifting weights or something more useful.
>
> Certainly I'm a bit bitter, but I didn't start the fight afaict. The
> community kind of lost its innocent blissful state long ago after some
> unfortunate events.
>
> [1] for example, part of what I read today http://img88.imageshack.us/
> img88/5559/redditposts.png
>
> [2] mostly posts by some bright guys like james iry ( http://james-
> iry.blogspot.com/ )
>
> [3] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
>
> [4] http://www.pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure