Example [1] was just an individual nutter. It gets used over and over to show that Lisp newsgroups are mean. One sign they're not is that people have to keep re-using that one example instead of finding the new ones that should in theory be very common. From what I've seen, people on Lisp newsgroups are much like on any other.
I just went looking for recent examples to prove my point and found none. Perhaps my memory of CLL is inaccurate, or it has become more friendly recently.
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Example [1] was just an individual nutter. It gets used over and over to show that Lisp newsgroups are mean. One sign they're not is that people have to keep re-using that one example instead of finding the new ones that should in theory be very common. From what I've seen, people on Lisp newsgroups are much like on any other.
I just went looking for recent examples to prove my point and found none. Perhaps my memory of CLL is inaccurate, or it has become more friendly recently.