[epsilon-devel] GNU epsilon hacks

[Luca Saiu]

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For who doesn't follow the GNU Planet, let me show you this blog post of
mine: http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/9/ .

If you know me personally you already know it: I really, really dislike
the technical[1] aspects of the web.  And blogs are questionable even as
a communication model, with their vertical nature in which the author
has ultimate control over what message is allowed to pass.  A blog is a
public diary.  Hearing yourself talk.  Public masturbation, if you will.

Still, speaking to yourself in public may be a useful thing to do
sometimes, beyond simple self-gratification.  I plan to use my blog to
discuss some epsilon hacks, so that readers may have a concrete idea
about the way things are supposed to work in epsilon, and see practical
examples.  This thing is mostly aimed at *myself*, as a way to
experiment with ideas and their presentation, and my posts will probably
*not* be very friendly to beginners: user documentation will come later
as a nice Texinfo manual, when the design is more crystallized.  But
fellow Lispers and language jocks may already be able to have some fun,
if they want.

Till next time: http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/9/

- -- 
Luca Saiu
Home page:   http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~saiu
My blog:     http://ageinghacker.net/blog
GNU epsilon: http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon

[1] In a recent e-mail discussion Richard Stallman reminded me that web
standards are preferrable to "apps", their candidate replacement,
because as they are based on public standards they permit independent
re-implementations and better interoperability, respecting the users'
freedom; he argued that because of this political reason we have to
defend the continued use of the web, despite some technical
shortcomings.  Richard's political analysis is as usual very lucid, and
I agree with him.  Nonetheless I still think the current web standards
are *technically* terrible.
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