I wrote the blog post just to expand a bit on the reply I gave on twitter because of the excerpt from "The Roots of Lisp". I never really expected to see on the HackerNews first page.

No worries, it just seemed short for the HN front-page.

Have you read Lisp in Small Pieces, btw?

Not yet, but it is in my wishlist :)

Easier link http://wambook.sf.net/

Yes I found that myself, but it doesn't actually state what the problems were!

Although I agree with the arguments, I cannot (yet?) agree with the final outcome.

You would because you are Greek and understand it. But what if it was Cyrillic or Chinese instead?

A domain in non-english characters communicates that the site has a high chance of being written in a non-english language.

Since I do not understand neither Cyrillic nor Chinese, I would probably not click on any of them.

Except:

1)...If I would really need to click on them (i.e. import some goods from China) in which case I would click on link and visit the site hoping that there is some kind of english description.

2)If I saw the link on Google (i.e. a search engine that I trust) and saw in the excerpt that there is some sort of legitimate description, it would be more likely that I would follow the link.

In short: The compiler knows best

I do not know. I submitted it by hand, less than 3 hours after it was created

And Rautor viewer: http://angelicquotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/rautor-viewer/

Some links about the paradox itself:

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

English translation of the original paper: http://homepage.rub.de/Dietrich.Braess/Paradox-BNW.pdf

Preface to the translation: http://supernet.som.umass.edu/articles/preface_to_braess.pdf

LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual (and others) in PDF: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book

Nice link! There are PDFs of old APL texts, too.