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• Helllooooooooo, Xah Lee! (Score:2)

  by TorgoX (1933)

  I don't remember much.

  But I remember that Xah Lee is that dick from the MacPerl list who wouldn't wrap his lines [bumppo.net].

  He's a low-grade kook.
  • Re:Helllooooooooo, Xah Lee! (Score:2)

    by pudge (1)

    Yes, he wrote a long dissertation [xahlee.org] about this, complaining about I and tchrist complaining about him. Incredible.
    
    He also wrote a rant about Perl [xahlee.org], in which he also invoked my name. He's funny.
    • Re:Helllooooooooo, Xah Lee! (Score:2)

      by pudge (1)

      Oh, and I wrote very few emails to Xah, and this [bumppo.net] was most of the extent of it, where I asked him to stop insulting people who used Unix, and corrected him on some of his errors [bumppo.net].
      
      I recommend, davorg, you remind him of his promise: "When one day Mac OS is unix-like, then I'll take an axe and chop my head in two."
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by perl-programmer-john (6492)

        Noticed this entry a bit late, but I (without doubt with some others helping) had his hosting provider kick him out: http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/t2/harassment.html [xahlee.org]
• Orkut (Score:2)

  by djberg96 (2603)

  He has a profile on Orkut. You can leave a nasty scrap for him there. ;)
  • Re:Orkut (Score:2)

    by drhyde (1683)

    People still use Orkut?
• I thought we decided... (Score:1)

  by zatoichi (4897)

  XAH LEE is Chinese for "Coward who hates perl".
• Lee's other problem (Score:2)

  by drhyde (1683)

  Never mind his shocking perl, what about his butchering of perhaps the most well known poetic form in the English language?

  I refer, of course, to the Limerick. On his web site he has this:

  I know a monger named Wall
  who always peddles his Perl
  if he had any grasp
  he would just LISP
  Wall's nothing but a troll
    --Xah Lee, 2000-02

  There's lots of problems here. First of all, Wall, Perl and troll don't rhyme. Nor do grap and LISP. And then there's the metre - there's one missing syllable in the first li
  • Re:Lee's other problem (Score:2)

    by ziggy (25)

    There's a more serious problem.

    Years ago, at dinner with a bunch of mongers, the subject turned to Lisp. Larry said something like (I paraphrase):

    Common Lisp is a great language. Except for the lack of syntax.

    So much for Larry just using Lisp if only he were smart enough. ;-)