"You can't get to the moon by piling up chairs." Home About Loper OS Guiding Principles RSS Feed Contact PGP « How to un-break graphical Java apps under Ratpoison Procrustes¹ Called and Wants His Bed Back, or How Golden Geese Make the Best Foie Gras. » The Wisdom of Erik Naggum Erik Naggum died slightly more than a year ago. I have never met the man in the flesh, and yet he is the one person who had most often and most radically re-shaped my opinions at their core, solely through the printed word – not only on the subject of computer programing, but on every kind of philosophical question imaginable. Reading his posts convinced me of (among many other things) the necessity of achieving virtuoso-fluency in Common Lisp before attempting to re-invent it – a journey on which I have now traveled for two years (and it is far from over!) Naggum would have reco...