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To wax religious/philosophical, albeit a little darker, you could shorten this even more: "All is suffering" Now I'm waiting for the Lisper to point out the m
by tswicegood 16y ago
To wax religious/philosophical, albeit a little darker, you could shorten this even more:
"All is suffering"
Now I'm waiting for the Lisper to point out the macro for it that has it down to a few characters. ;-)
- grovulent 16y agoU+221E
- blantonl 16y agoIf someone could translate this for us non-lispers that would be awesome. That way, we could understand the sheer awesomeness that probably accompanies the parent poster.
- pjscott 16y agoI think you're getting Lispers confused with Perl hackers. The Lisp macro for that would be long and aggressively hyphenated. In Cobol, of course, "All is suffering" is just implied, and doesn't require any extra characters to state.
- nkassis 16y agohow would you state it in this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_%28programming_language%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_%28programming_language%29 I presume it would be an awesome painting/shirt ;p
- ihodes 16y agoIt'd be one black pixel. In Lisp, it'd be an empty cons cell. In C, it'd be the null pointer. In Java, it'd be a XxxFactoryFactoryFactory.
- sliverstorm 16y agoI always preferred 'nothing endures but change', though it's admittedly longer.