DonHopkins on July 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unexecute
The Lisp Machine keyboard had dedicated open and close parenthesis keys, so you could hold a hefty bag of nitrous oxide in your other hand while you typed s-expressions.
qwertyuiop924 on July 29, 2016 [–]
Wait, what are you doing with that nitrous oxoide? Should I start worrying?
DonHopkins on July 29, 2016 | parent [–]
Reflecting on the S-expressions I just typed!
qwertyuiop924 on July 29, 2016 | root | parent [–]
Well, when you're done with the nitrous oxide, just toss whatever you wrote into the obfuscated code contest.
DonHopkins on July 29, 2016 | root | parent [–]
There's a reason the paren keys had really fast auto-repeat!
http://xahlee.info/kbd/space-cadet_keyboard.html
Here's the rumor I heard from Gumby about why it was designed that way:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12187422
DonHopkins on July 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unexecute
The Lisp Machine keyboard had dedicated open and close parenthesis keys, so you could hold a hefty bag of nitrous oxide in your other hand while you typed s-expressions.
qwertyuiop924 on July 29, 2016 [–]
Wait, what are you doing with that nitrous oxoide? Should I start worrying?
DonHopkins on July 29, 2016 | parent [–]
Reflecting on the S-expressions I just typed!
qwertyuiop924 on July 29, 2016 | root | parent [–]
Well, when you're done with the nitrous oxide, just toss whatever you wrote into the obfuscated code contest.
DonHopkins on July 29, 2016 | root | parent [–]
There's a reason the paren keys had really fast auto-repeat!