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The article also describes Lua as a library, so it may just have been simple ignorance. People occasionally ask me what Lisp is when they see the book on my des
by Tamerlin 16y ago
The article also describes Lua as a library, so it may just have been simple ignorance. People occasionally ask me what Lisp is when they see the book on my desk while passing by.
- mahmud 16y agoJust came back from the DMV and had a man lean over to read the title of my book more carefully; it had "Adversarial Information Retrieval" on the cover, collected conference papers. You could tell from the look on his face that he understood what each individual word meant, but not their combination (I was itching to enlighten, only if he asked.) Worse than Lisp is casual mathematics. People just can't grok that mathematics can be "read" by the lay non-mathematician. They know 'mathematician' and 'physicist', and they also know that engineers use calculus, but the rest of mathematics looks exotic and hard to them. Even when the math is used for the sake of brevity, a more concise and more malleable representation of mental models (objects.) The next time someone asks me to multiply large integers in my head just because I read stuff with greek letters, I will substitute variables for their values and solve the general case, starting with a primitive ZF construction of the natural numbers ;-)