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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018) by nwsm on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:32AM (#23166697)
> "Let there be light" is a highly abstract instruction.

The more I think about this, the more I realise it might be the most abstract instruction. It's actually kind of beautiful.

Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018) by int_19h on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:46PM (#23169507)
I once worked in a company that used a similar approach. So, for example, the "chief architect" would file a bug in the tracker titled, "Product X does not exist". It would then be up to the engineers to "fix" it by creating the product.

No wonder Satan rebelled. ~

Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018) by 0xebfc on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:47AM (#23166831)
That itch you're feeling is the itch I feel when I write in a LISP. Other programming languages make up too many of their own rules and get in the way.

But those are just feelings, and if you forget that, you'll bring yourself into a manic state. heh.

Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018) by klyrs on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:51AM (#23168136)
In python you can do

  pip install light
and it installs all the requisite dependencies. Awkwardly, god runs as root and doesn't bother with virtual environments, so there might be some bugs due to version creep