Larry Wall & Cults

[Richie Hindle]

[Sara]

just look at the reaction if any questions any element of Perl design!

My one and only foray into comp.lang.perl was to ask about the rationale
behind using regular expressions as the mechanism for untainting tainted
data. Since regular expressions are so pervasive in Perl code, it seemed to
me (as a Perl beginner) that it made it very easy to untaint without
realising it. I never returned, and I'm grateful to the Python community
for not being the Perl community.

 

[norman werner]

No, it's Esperanto (universal language) for "troll"...

-Peter

Bonvolu ne s:ercu pri nekonatoj aferoj. "Xah Lee" certe - pro manko de
Ikso - ne estas esperanto. Kaj via s:erco nur s:tulta estas.


Norman
tradukita:
You certainly have not the slightest idea about esperanto. So please
dont't emberass yourself. And back to topic(?): "Xah lee" is not
esperanto.

 

[R Baumann]

Larry Wall and Cults
(Lazyness, Impatience and Hubris)
200012

<BIG SNIP>

In this context --- This is the STUPIDEST thing I've ever heard. What a
maroon! What a Trollup!

RB

 

[Peter Maas]

Bonvolu ne s:ercu pri nekonatoj aferoj. "Xah Lee" certe - pro manko de
Ikso - ne estas esperanto. Kaj via s:erco nur s:tulta estas.


Norman
tradukita:
You certainly have not the slightest idea about esperanto. So please
dont't emberass yourself. And back to topic(?): "Xah lee" is not
esperanto.

I've only taken a superficial look to Esperanto but your "tradukita"
seems to be a very loose translation. What does the Kaj ... phrase mean?
"You are dumb", "Your joke is dumb", ...?

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas

 

[Arthur]

<BIG SNIP>

In this context --- This is the STUPIDEST thing I've ever heard. What a
maroon! What a Trollup!

His plane curve work is not far from some of my own obsessions. I knew
of and admired his site.

Didn't know he had other interests as well

Maybe an extreme me.

All obsessions in moderation, is my motto.


Art

 

[Johnny Storm]

It was a great song, but it needed more cowbell...

Mark.

Gotta have more cowbell. . . .

Johnny

 

[Marco Aschwanden]

What does the Kaj ... phrase mean?

"You are dumb", "Your joke is dumb", ...?

Please don't make jokes about unknown things. "Xah Lee" for certain - [for
esperanto] failing to have the
letter 'y' - is not esperanto. And your joke is nothing but stupid.

Saluton,
Marco

 

[Grant Edwards]

Hey this ain't no CULT! Our creedo is simply:

"Larry said it, I believe it, THAT settles it!"

If you don't believe it just look at the reaction if any questions any
element of Perl design!

Over here in c.l.python, it's more like

"Guido said it, that settles it, but we're going to discuss
it endlessly and and vote on it using six or seven
different voting algorithms anyway. Then we'll argue about
the voting algorithms."

 

[Byron]

What are you replacing Unix with?

M$ Windows... lol

Byron
---

 

[Randal L. Schwartz]

Grant> "Guido said it, that settles it, but we're going to discuss
Grant> it endlessly and and vote on it using six or seven
Grant> different voting algorithms anyway. Then we'll argue about
Grant> the voting algorithms."

Are the voting algorithms indented consistently? That's a necessity,
correct? Surely, they have significant whitespace.

/me ducks back under his rock

 

[Alan Balmer]

I bet Larry Wall's life insurance premiums just skyrocketed. BTW, what
does this have to do with Lisp? We are more of a therapy and support
group than a cult.

That's fortunate, since Xah Lee obviously needs those services.

 

[John Savard]

Did you know that throughout history there's this thing called cult?

We have heard of it.

Don't think that i'm citing from
some arcane books buried in libraries. These are real, and not
difficult to find in real life.

Unlike the cult of Chthulhu, for example.

Big brother organizations, such as the FBI, is keen on these and
very interested in benefiting from social psychology themselves. They
are recorded in books too. Ever wonder why the library houses so many
cold volumes of paper? This is one contributing reason. You might be
interested to verify that sometimes.

Ah, yes. If it weren't for the interest of the FBI in cults, our
libraries would be much smaller, or they would emphasize warm audio and
video recordings more.

Surely you have heard of Adolf Hitler
and his atrocities of genocide?

Yes, you are rather safe in assuming that.

I must alert you, that a single person
couldn't commit such a crime. You see, even if you are superman, you
can only kill few at a time.

Yes, despite claims at the Nuremberg trials, Hitler didn't run the
concentration camps as a one-man operation.

You see, it is the people, people like
you and me, who commit the killings willingly, by Hitler's
teaching. You may say: "no, i won't ever do such stupid thing", well
because you are very ignorant about social psychology. It is precisely
innocent people like you and (not) me, who were lead by the radical
leaders of supreme brain-washing abilities. The innocent mob were
fervent in their leader's vision and beliefs to commit anything.

They did, though, have to select from the German people those who would
operate the concentration camps.

As for the masses, it was enough that they were afraid to try to do
anything to stop it.

How can we prevent heinous cults then? Stop bending truths. Education
and rationalism. I'm starting my own cult to exterminate morons on
this earth. Two things are on the top of my agenda: Unixism and Perl.

You are not providing any validation for your claim that these things
are so dangerous that the use of deadly force is justified or necessary.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html

 

[Grant Edwards]

Grant> "Guido said it, that settles it, but we're going to discuss
Grant> it endlessly and and vote on it using six or seven
Grant> different voting algorithms anyway. Then we'll argue about
Grant> the voting algorithms."

Are the voting algorithms indented consistently? That's a
necessity, correct?

Of course, but are they consistently indented using tabs or
spaces?

 

[Rich Teer]

Actually, there is also The Cult, a British band that lasted from
1984-1995.

I belive the Cult (She Sells Sanctuary, etc.) is another manfifestation
of the Blue Öyster Cult.

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

 

[Reid Nichol]

> They did, though, have to select from the German people those who
> would operate the concentration camps.

Which where the afraid ones or the ones that actually believed in him
for one reason or another. Yes, some people didn't need brain-washing
to believe him. I know it's a radical idea that some people are racist,
but it true!

> As for the masses, it was enough that they were afraid to try to do
> anything to stop it.

Perhaps you should look into the history books a little closer. There
was this thing call the resistance in *all* the countries you know, not
to mention the anti-nazi publications in the papers during his rise to
power. And without those resistance fighters, the allies might have
failed in there endeavour.


Why did you even give an actual reply to this guy anyway?

 

[Pete Fenelon]

In this context --- This is the STUPIDEST thing I've ever heard. What a
maroon! What a Trollup!

He doesn't quite win, there's one regular afc troll who narrowly edges
him out... but I won't mention his name because that tends to invoke
him.

pete

 

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

I belive the Cult (She Sells Sanctuary, etc.) is another manfifestation
of the Blue Öyster Cult.

Does not seem so: Founding member Ian Astbury is not listed as member
of any other groups, for instance.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:5qktk6gx9kr3~T1

 

[Peter Maas]

Most of you are crossposting this thread to 5 newsgroups. Are you aware of this
fact or are you just hitting reply?

 

[joe]

Larry Wall and Cults
(Lazyness, Impatience and Hubris)
200012

[ Poor standup comedy deleted ]

These brain-washing phenomenon, are not limited to fanatical
life-and-death or otherwise dire beliefs. You see it work in all
manners of human thought in the general sense. From culture formation
to fashion to commercialism. Surely you have heard of Adolf Hitler

Godwin! In the first post of the thread too...

Joe

 

[Peter Maas]

What does the Kaj ... phrase mean?
"You are dumb", "Your joke is dumb", ...?

[...]
letter 'y' - is not esperanto. And your joke is nothing but stupid.

Thanks, Marco.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas