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by reikonomusha 2233 days ago
Erik Naggum has been dead for 11 years. I’m not sure it’s useful to bring up his contributions to the culture if we are discussing what Lisp is today.
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He's been dead for a long time, though I've seen his posts being brought up now and then on the Lisp forums. Honestly, I'm thankful that these situations are rare. Most of his Lisp wisdom has been distilled from his other qualities and integrated into many contemporary Lisp libraries. This saves us from the need to dive into the verbatim Naggum posts from the c.l.l archives.
That's your opinion and you're welcome to it. I wouldn't use words like 'us', just say 'me'.

I find considerable value in reading Naggum posts verbatim.

Good idea, thanks. The next time I'll replace "us" with "me, and plenty of others".
I edited my post, hope you do the same.
I cannot - the time is over, so I hope that whoever reads my original post also reads this series of replies.