Re:Ask HN: Is Lisp the Linux of Languages?
by ggm on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:47PM
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An account from 2009 with karma < 100 suddenly posting somewhat incoherent lines of reasoning. (OSX derived from linux..)
I begin to suspect somebody is feeding Mark V. Shaney in his cage and he's emitting text sequences again.
To (not) answer your last comment, discussions about computer language syntax are often not as useful as semantics, but in the case of LISP this is usally inverted. LISP syntax is a formal construct with unambiguous parsing states when it is well formed and English is a language notorious for having ambiguous parsing states when it is formed well.
I begin to suspect somebody is feeding Mark V. Shaney in his cage and he's emitting text sequences again.
To (not) answer your last comment, discussions about computer language syntax are often not as useful as semantics, but in the case of LISP this is usally inverted. LISP syntax is a formal construct with unambiguous parsing states when it is well formed and English is a language notorious for having ambiguous parsing states when it is formed well.