The Truth About Lisp

Posted by parenthesis on Sunday January 27, 2008 @08:34PM
from the secretgeek.net dept.

http://www.secretgeek.net/lisp_truth.asp

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Re:The Truth About Lisp by asdflkj on Sunday January 27, 2008 @11:17PM (#105330)

When will stuff like this stop passing for humor? You can take any set of facts, grossly exaggerate it, and then deadpan it. You could probably write a program to do it for you.

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Re:The Truth About Lisp by jmzachary on Monday January 28, 2008 @10:06AM (#105586)

Hopefully, never. It was funny. If you're a Lisper who is offended, you are taking yourself way too seriously.

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Re:The Truth About Lisp by icky on Monday January 28, 2008 @06:18AM (#105477)

> You could probably write a program to do it for you.

But only Lisp would get it right...

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Re:The Truth About Lisp by cduan on Sunday January 27, 2008 @10:50PM (#105322)

http://xkcd.com/224/

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Re:The Truth About Lisp by bayareaguy on Sunday January 27, 2008 @11:00PM (#105325)

My god! It's full of 'car's!

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Re:The Truth About Lisp by wallflower on Sunday January 27, 2008 @11:54PM (#105345)

+1 for Starchild reference. I saw 2001 again recently. Amazing work. I still don't claim to understand it. But it makes you think.

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Re:The Truth About Lisp by trekker7 on Monday January 28, 2008 @03:09AM (#105414)

hahah this takes the cake: "Paul Graham originally wrote reddit, in lisp, on the back of a napkin while he was waiting for a coffee. it was so powerful that it had to be rewritten in python just so that ordinary computers could understand it."

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Re:The Truth About Lisp by koolmoe on Monday January 28, 2008 @09:27AM (#105552)

s/had to be rewritten/rewrote itself/

would be funnier.

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Re:The Truth About Lisp by tjr on Sunday January 27, 2008 @10:07PM (#105293)

Um, ok. Heh.

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