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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. ;-)