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(he (will (be (dearly (missed)))))

• anon_d 15y ago
  ((will-be (dearly missed)) he) FTFY
• pjscott 15y ago
  Whenever people make Lisp jokes by nesting parentheses without regard for the semantics that they denote, I get a little disappointed. It's not anger, nor contempt; just a feeling that we can do better. (will-be 'john-mccarthy (modifier 'missed 'dearly)) Incidentally, "I feel like we can do better" would probably be a pretty good summary of what John McCarthy was about.
  • kinghajj 15y ago
    I thought about doing something like that, but decided against it. I'm expressing condolences, not writing an obituary program!
    • lukeschlather 15y ago
      It would at least be nice to have the parentheses in some sense represent the parse tree for the sentence, like: (He (will be) (dearly missed)) That's not very Lispy, and I'm sure some linguists would have a thing or two to say about my tree, but it at least has a structure related to the meaning.
  • jcromartie 15y ago
    Or, (assert (equal 'dearly (missed-amount 'john-mccarthy)))
• eru 15y ago
  You should put more effort into your Lisp parody.
  • cconroy 15y ago
    ((not (parody?)) 'homage)
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• DrJokepu 15y ago
  It's maybe a not very well known fact but McCarthy's original LISP proposal used M-expressions instead of S-expressions; M-expressions were then transformed into S-expressions. Using S-expressions directly, however, turned out to be more popular amongst programmers. With M-expressions, this would look like: he[will[be[dearly[missed]]]]
  • jc4p 15y ago
    I wish they had went with M-expressions, I'd be able to make Obj-C and Lips jokes at the same time!
• chaitanya 15y ago
  (will-miss 'john-mccarthy :dearly t)