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The Truth About Lisp

• tjr 19y ago
  Um, ok. Heh.
• cduan 19y ago
  http://xkcd.com/224/ http://xkcd.com/224/
  • bayareaguy 19y ago
    My god! It's full of 'car's!
    • wallflower 19y ago
      +1 for Starchild reference. I saw 2001 again recently. Amazing work. I still don't claim to understand it. But it makes you think.
• asdflkj 19y ago
  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.
  • icky 19y ago
    > You could probably write a program to do it for you. But only Lisp would get it right...
  • jmzachary 19y ago
    Hopefully, never. It was funny. If you're a Lisper who is offended, you are taking yourself way too seriously.
• trekker7 19y ago
  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."
  • koolmoe 19y ago
    s/had to be rewritten/rewrote itself/ would be funnier.