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No, my bubble just needs a bit of funding so I can be even more effective at contributing to Common Lisp Open Source.

I am assuming he would not say that if he deeply hated college dropouts and did not want to acknowledge their success.

Thank you. I am aiming to help make Common Lisp (or a close descendant) a top 5 programming language by 2040. I believe this is eminently achievable given proper approaches, and fu…

The point of the fundraiser is to enable me to concentrate almost all my energy on Common Lisp Open Source instead of having to divert energy elsewhere due to financial concerns. G…

I can't immediately find where in his essays he talked favorably about college dropouts, but there is this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110248609545703425

It is chaotic, I'll give you that. This is a direct reflection of the chaotic state of the Common Lisp community and of all the hard work that is going to be required to bring it t…

My CV and other writings and most especially my work itself pretty extensively justify that I'm the right person for the job. Of course, it's probably pretty hard to tell without s…

> It does not help to "prove" an assertion by making further unsubstantiated assertions. Exactly, so stop doing that, then. Including sealioning. > Why is Lisp the "best programmin…

Did you mean to present an argument of some sort?

Simple syntax is just one of countless crucial features. Here is just a trivial sample: https://twitter.com/HexstreamSoft/status/1334220825281654785 Fairly extensive advocacy piece…

This is dead serious. Do you find the idea of funding Common Lisp Open Source abhorrent? Because that is the primary focus of my work and my life. Do you think this would have more…

I am creating tons of Common Lisp community resources that definitely help attract a more diverse audience to Common Lisp, incidentally. (Not everyone is comfortable with the "pop …

Common Lisp really IS the best programming language in the world, though. This is a statement of fact. We could do a better job of proving it and demonstrating it to the world, and…

I would like to review your Common Lisp credentials.

The Common Lisp Revival 2020 Fundraiser is mostly oriented towards people who understand the value of Common Lisp. Thank you.

Thank you for your interest. I believe you are looking for the Common Lisp Revival 2020 Fundraiser pitch: https://github.com/sponsors/Hexstream

tl;dr: I'd very much like a "noprocrast front-page only" or "comment threads ignore noprocrast" checkbox. I have a huge noprocrast. Having to /logout just to check out a story or i…

Nothing for Rete? Come on . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm

It's a gender-neutral pronoun. (Great concept in theory but looks stupid and won't catch on, IMHO.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronouns

In Common Lisp we have optional type declarations, and a common strategy for implementations (for SBCL, say) is to treat such declarations as assertions by default, leading to more…

I find your lack of parentheses disturbing. I'd personally prefer: (b-when foo (plusp 1) (frob foo)) These implementations also don't handle declarations correctly ;P A surprisingl…

At the cost (among other things) of not being able to pass functions as arguments, though that could be worked around.