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Urgent appeal to Paul Graham, etc.: Please help kickstart Common Lisp revolution

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Re: Urgent appeal to Paul Graham, etc.: Please help kickstart Common Lisp revolution

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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 to a state of dignity. I am actively working on bringing about this change, and although I am already fairly effective despite the constant and increasingly blatant sabotage and almost total lack of funding, I would be quite a bit more effec…

Why not looking for a job and doing Lisp in the spare time?

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.

Given the overall context, the direct and substantial benefit to the Common Lisp community of me getting at least minimal funding ought to be obvious.

The most immediate effect of me starting to look for a job would be to significantly reduce the energy I can spend towards Common Lisp Open Source.

Basically, I already have the dream job, but now I just need to get paid at least a bit. Even a small fraction of a "real" salary would be truly life-changing!

Re: Urgent appeal to Paul Graham, etc.: Please help kickstart Common Lisp revolution

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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 it would be easier to do it faster with funding.

I wish you all the best convincing people its the best language in the world.

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 funding me would certainly help towards that goal.

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Re: Urgent appeal to Paul Graham, etc.: Please help kickstart Common Lisp revolution

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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 states: " Successful college dropouts are not rare in Silicon Valley. The current president of Y Combinator is one. " This is merely an observation of his and says nothing about his personal attitude towards dropouts. But you have addressed him in your appeal, so take your chance.

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