The Truth About Lisp(secretgeek.net)

10 pointsby parenthesisقبل 19 سنة9 comments

http://www.secretgeek.net/lisp_truth.asp

4 comments

asdflkjقبل 19 سنة

When will stuff like this stop passing for humor? You can take any set of facts, grossly exaggerate it, and then deadpan it. You could probably write a program to do it for you.

jmzacharyقبل 19 سنة

Hopefully, never. It was funny. If you're a Lisper who is offended, you are taking yourself way too seriously.

ickyقبل 19 سنة

> You could probably write a program to do it for you.

But only Lisp would get it right...

cduanقبل 19 سنة

http://xkcd.com/224/

bayareaguyقبل 19 سنة

My god! It's full of 'car's!

wallflowerقبل 19 سنة

+1 for Starchild reference. I saw 2001 again recently. Amazing work. I still don't claim to understand it. But it makes you think.

trekker7قبل 19 سنة

hahah this takes the cake: "Paul Graham originally wrote reddit, in lisp, on the back of a napkin while he was waiting for a coffee. it was so powerful that it had to be rewritten in python just so that ordinary computers could understand it."

koolmoeقبل 19 سنة

s/had to be rewritten/rewrote itself/

would be funnier.

tjrقبل 19 سنة

Um, ok. Heh.