do...until wisdom needed...

[Douglas Alan]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> Douglas Alan wrote:

> > I'll tell you who I've listened to quite carefully: Guido, who has a lot
> > of good ideas, and the designers of Lisp (eg, Dave Moon, John McArthy,
> > Guy Steele, all of whom I've met personally)

> so when did any of these guys last tell you that they know more
> about programming languages and programming language design than you
> do or ever will?

They didn't -- I figured that out by myself.

On the other hand, I think Dave Moon, at least, would have had qualms
no telling me this if I had had the gall to tell him to "sit down.
shut up.  read.  learn."

|>oug