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A comment on Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005).

Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by cwyers on Saturday September 10, 2016 @04:45PM (#12470798)
Steve Yegge's response:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...

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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by atombender on Saturday September 10, 2016 @05:52PM (#12471039)
Yegge's predictions don't always come through, but he basically predicted Clojure. (The "someone will Thorvalds Arc" bit.)
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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by StreamBright on Saturday September 10, 2016 @05:23PM (#12470948)
Thanks for this, I nearly fell of from the couch reading it. Yegge's writings are extremely entertaining.
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