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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 conte
by 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 agoI thought about doing something like that, but decided against it. I'm expressing condolences, not writing an obituary program!
- lukeschlather 15y agoIt 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 agoOr, (assert (equal 'dearly (missed-amount 'john-mccarthy)))