Well, hopefully this is the end of the annual “This is the year for Linux on the Desktop” idiocy.
I’ve never believed Linux is a good desktop OS. It simply lacks the tools you need for a desktop. Although some open source stuff is decent, it isn’t well enough linked into the corporate infrastructure to matter.
Linux’s […]
Computer Languages
Jan 4th, 2008 by lispian in Uncategorized
I’ve been catching up on my reading, internet reading that is. And I notice that I had a lot of tabs open re: computer languages. One thing I notice that’s quite interesting is that a number of people are starting to make comments regarding various languages akin to my long-standing beliefs.
Java: I’ve felt that Java […]
Complexity
Jan 3rd, 2008 by lispian in Uncategorized
I love Paul Graham’s comment on Dan Weinreb’s Why Did Symbolics Fail? article.
Complexity has driven me nuts for years. I don’t comprehend why everything has to be so complex. It’s as if there’s a secret cabal someplace that figures it has to be hard, it’s computers.
Thank God for Steve Jobs and his ability […]
