The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :)

Re:The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :) by SeanLuke on Saturday May 12, 2012 @09:35AM (#3963786)

I'm not sure what the point of this is. It seems pretty petty. To wit, we could have just we well written...

    MACLISP (1980):
    (format t "Week ~R of the ~:R month of the year ~:@R~%" 15 102 1996)
        --> Week fifteen of the one hundred second month of the year MDCCCCLXXXXVI

    C/C++/Java/Python/Ruby:
    ...uh...

    COMMON LISP:
    (format t "Week ~R of the ~:R month of the year ~:@R~%" 15 102 1996)
        --> Week fifteen of the one hundred second month of the year MDCCCCLXXXXVI

There are powerful print functions and then there are powerful print functions.

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Re:The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :) by warmfuzzykitten on Saturday May 12, 2012 @10:06AM (#3963878)

Where's your sense of humor? It was intended to be funny, and it was.

Of course, like all irony the glass is only half funny.

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Re:The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :) by calibraxis on Saturday May 12, 2012 @11:53AM (#3964196)

Clojure has cl-format. (http://richhickey.github.com/clojure/clojure.pprint-api.html...)

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Re:The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :) by draegtun on Saturday May 12, 2012 @02:54PM (#3964767)

Ditto for Perl: https://metacpan.org/module/Lisp::Fmt

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