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Re:Advanced Practical Recursion in Lisp 1.0 by rjprins on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @09:01AM (#541750)
So it's a recursive technique named "APRiL 1.0" published on April 1st, and it's not an April fools?

The code is a bit to intricate for me to completely get it. :(

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Re:Advanced Practical Recursion in Lisp 1.0 by Raphael_Amiard on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:17AM (#541828)
Well i'm not that fluent in clojure, but you gotta get that it's a joke when he talks about removing map and reduce from the language :)
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Re:Advanced Practical Recursion in Lisp 1.0 by jimbokun on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:45AM (#541883)
If you're honestly not getting the programming joke, you might want to read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_combinator#Y_combinator

The other possibility is, it's just not that funny. :)

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Re:Advanced Practical Recursion in Lisp 1.0 by jules on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:04AM (#541921)
If you don't understand something immediately it's not funny. Thinking <=> Not funny.
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