Re: C interpreter in Lisp/scheme/python

[francogrex]

In article <16a7e301-2e85-47eb-971e-79acc4e076a6@b35g2000yqi.
googlegroups.com>, gnuist006@gmail.com says...
>This makes some sense. He replied on the newsgroup in a lengthy 
post
>that there are sufficient resources out there giving hint that 
no one
>need help me out. Then I was called "lazy" in one email and 
tersely
>given JUST the last name of an author who has many books each 
many
>100s pages, when I asked for a relevant book, as if i am a 
scholar in
>the field, although he did spend lots of words on irrelevant and
>unbeneficial things which diminished my enthusiasm. Now, I find 
out
>from you that he has/had a business concern or interest in a 
company
>that is writing/wrote lisp interpreter in C. Correct me if I am 
making
>an error. I dont want to think deprecatingly of any good soul 
but this
>is what i experienced.

No, you're not making a bad judgement. He's not the only one who 
treats newcomers with disrespect and scorn. Unfortunately many 
so-called experts in the field look down on newbies and mistreat 
them (in any programming language forum), forgetting in the 
process that they were also at a certain time newbies until 
someone gentle and nice enough teachers took the trouble to 
educate them. On the other hand there are less neurotic experts 
out there who are glad to help out someone learning. It's like in 
some universities, you have the bad "professors" who are freaks 
(probably they have a lot of problems at home, their wives 
screwing all the males on the block, daughters drug addicts etc) 
and want to take their hatred out on you, and you have the 
good and mentally stable professors who actually deserve their 
title.