From cbdfe687771aa8f97724dcea52b749c4f8fa7e66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Brooke Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 13:26:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added Awful Warning --- Home.md | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index 50ea256..ef8d09b 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -1,4 +1,14 @@ -Welcome to the post-scarcity wiki! +# AWFUL WARNING + +This does not work. It isn't likely to work any time soon. If you want to learn Lisp, don't start here; try Clojure, Scheme or Common Lisp (in which case I recommend Steel Bear Common Lisp). If you want to learn how Lisp works, still don't start here. This isn't ever going to be anything like a conventional Lisp environment. + +When Linus Torvalds sat down in his bedroom to write Linux, he had something usable in only a few months. BUT: + +* Linus was young, energetic, and extremely talented; I am none of those things. +* Linus was trying to build a clone of something which already existed and was known to work. Nothing like what I'm aiming for exists. +* Linus was able to adopt the GNU user space stack. There is no user space stack for this idea; I don't even know what one would look like. + +# Contents * [[cons space]] * [[vector space]]