BIG successes of Lisp

Joe Marshall jrm at ccs.neu.edu
Tue Oct 14 14:02:08 EDT 2003


mike420 at ziplip.com writes:

> Joe Marshall wrote:
>
>> mike420 at ziplip.com writes:
>> 
>>> Ivan Toshkov wrote:
>>>
>>>> 
>>>> Besides, when I read the description of orbiz, I was with the
>>>> impression, that they prealocated the memory for just that reason: to
>>>> remove the need for garbage collection.
>>>
>>> An why would anyone do something this gross to optimize something
>>> that is not a real bottleneck? Think when you read. The fact is,
>>> they still had close their whole web site for maintenance every
>>> once in a while (I never said if it was a supercomputer cluser or
>>> a DOS machine) I added "AFAIK" qualifier because it may
>>> be an old and already resolved issue.
>>>
>>> Edi Weitz and Joe Marshall, you may stop kissing ass now. You
>>> need brains to work for ITA, not lips.
>> 
>> I'm well aware of the necessary qualifications for working at ITA.
>
> Do the necessary qualifications have anything to do with
> why you do not work there any more, while ITA is still 
> recruiting?

You're obviously more informed than I am, so you tell me.

> <insert random lie here, joe>

I did not inhale.

>> I worked there.  
>
> Half-truth

Which half?

>> Any shutdown at Orbitz was (and is) unrelated to
>> garbage collection.
>
> Another

The expert speaks.

> Anyway, I'm getting tired of your mindless content-free
> pukes of posts. 

I don't recall asking you.

> Someone said prunesquallor at comcast.net was 
> also you. Is that right?
>
> If you strive for expressing balanced opinions, I might
> let you stick around and have my left-overs.

Why would I want those?




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