On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
> Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> > Just a meta remark - I find it highly amusing how people dissect the
>> > Gospel of Alan, even interpreting it literally. He must get quite a
>> > chuckle from that ;)
>>
>> Well I hope so! :-)
>
> Given how happy he said he was to not have any disciples, he might be
> less than amused to find out otherwise ;-)
>
> Going to the other extreme, where everyone's opinion is equally valid,
> leads to situations like a guy explaining to me on comp.lang.lisp that
> multiple dispatch is the most important feature of OOP and so CLOS and
> C++ are true OO languages but Smalltalk is not.
>
>>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/b2aa1842ccb7d7c/134456502780e63f?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=jecel#134456502780e63f

I know I shouldn't react, but could you just dissect for me how Alan's
post, either the one before or the one after the post of yourself you
linked here, makes the point you're suggesting him to be making?

Is it the 'I've no idea where I'm going with this.' part perhaps?

/Ties