A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.

— Erik Naggum, Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile."

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/922b65c2b29cc095

From a Usenet article about replacing Emacs Lisp with Guile.

Topics: software engineering