Brandon's abrasive style (was Re: What's better about Ruby than Python?)

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Donn Cave wrote:
> "Troll" is really a function of the audience.

Agreed.

> These guys will
> exist, there is this way of viewing the world as a dramatic
> contest between the armies of Python etc.:  You will lose, they
> will eat your lunch, you're already dead and you don't know it,
> bla bla.  But it takes an audience that finds this sort of thing
> in the least compelling, usually young males it seems.

I'm after something much bigger than Python.  I'm after Permanent Computing.
I want any game I make to be archived for hundreds of years to posterity.
Championing an open source language, or figuring out how to surf Microsoft
indefinitely, is only the opening gambit.

It would not shock me if most people could care less about this agenda.
Most programmers are not also artists.  They accept their ephemerality,
their complete wastes of time.  In fact, they usually think it's kewl.

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Brandon Van Every               Seattle, WA

20% of the world is real.
80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.