Judging by the root post, it appears I started this thread on the subject of the trollish behavior of the NewLisp project. You can collapse it and use another one.
> I see no reason to NewLisp was named to troll people.
I have visited the NewLisp website a couple of times in the last 15 years or so and found trollish content. Example:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041010181233/http://newlisp.or...
Quote: "Don't read books about LISP, if you want to learn newLISP, most deal with Common LISP or Scheme, two different older standards of LISP. These books teach you many concepts unnecessary to learn newLISP, which does some things in a very different way than the older standards. Try to understand newLISP on it's own terms."
There you go!
* Don't read books about Lisp.
* Lisp and Scheme are older standards (NewLisp is the new standard, hence the "New").
Newer version of last sentence:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080726054533/http://www.newlis...
"newLISP does things much differently from the older standards, in ways that are more applicable to today's programming tasks."
Thus, pre-existing Lisps are not applicable to today's programming very well; here is a new standard to fix it. We're bringing back dynamic-scope-only and frexps because today's programming once again requires a Lisp from 1960.
"More applicable" isn't trollish enough, so the webmaster added the text "and on a higher level closer to the problem at hand" sometime by 2012, which stands today. (The "old standards" are low-level languages, incapable of the same level of abstraction offered by NewLisp). At least the "don't read books" remark was removed, though.