Fw: [E-Lang] When We Do Joule (was: down with `define')

[Marc Stiegler]

Uh, the part of me that was NOT joking deserved to be reminded. Important
missing word :-)

--marcs

----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Stiegler <marcs@skyhunter.com>
To: Dan Bornstein <danfuzz@milk.com>; <e-lang@eros-os.org>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [E-Lang] When We Do Joule (was: down with `define')


>
> > Marc Stiegler writes:
> > >promise we'll fix it when we do Joule.
> >
> > (Rant warning.)
> >
> > That attitude disturbs me. Not that Joule isn't a fine language in many
> > ways (I wouldn't have worked at EC for two years if I hadn't bought into
> > some of its concepts), but I find it hard to believe that the right next
> > step from E is necessarily something that already exists, and that
anyone
> > could know for sure what it actually would be.
>
> You are of course correct. I was mostly joking when I wrote the above
> passage (trying to put something lighter weight into what I consider a
> life-and-death discussion :-), but the part of me that was joking deserved
> to be reminded :-)
>
> --marcs
>