From: Anton van Straaten (anton@appsolutions.com)
Subject: Re: endless onanism about semantics 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Date: 2004-09-01 23:31:48 PST 


Bill Richter wrote to Shriram Krishnamurthi:

> I'm outta work, with no prospects, and I figured that if I could
> teach something to you guys, it might marginally improve my
> position.  And I know I'm right, so there's no problem with
> ending up with egg on my face after you guys prove I'm wrong.
> But there's a big chance that you guys won't listen to me, and
> then declare a victory, just like last time, and then I typed a lot
> for nothing, but it's no worse than that.  I don't have a stake in
> the Scheme community yet, so I don't worry about any damage
> I'd do. ...
> Please feel free to share any private email from me.  I would think
> this point would be so obvious that there's no need to mention it.

Wow.  I'm stunned, on multiple levels.  Thank you for posting this, Shriram.
It certainly explains a lot.

I see I was too generous in attributing to Bill the desire to learn
anything.

Anton