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Enough...with...lisp....
by buggythebug 4y ago
Enough...with...lisp....
- ashton314 4y agoFine, fine. We can do ISWIM next time.
- agency 4y agonever!
- sph 4y ago3 months ago you described yourself as a "non-techie", and you come here of all places, and cry about too much Lisp? You've taken a wrong turn, pal. This house was built with parens. Sent from my Lisp Machine.
- anthk 4y agoEmacs and HN for GNU's, right?
- benj111 4y ago>This house was built with parens. While the metaphor is correct. (House(kitchen ( bathroom (bedroom)))) Surely the meaningful part of a house, or lisp, is everything else. (((()))) Is neither a house nor lisp. Yes it probably is, but the meaningful part is the nothing that's in there, not the parens surrounding the nothing. A house isn't just 4 walls. It's where you live, surely that's the important part. I'll stop getting philosophical with throwaway comments now.
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- tmtvl 4y agoI like that analogy, a programming language without brackets is like a house without walls, and nil is an empty house.
- benj111 4y agoAs I said, the analogy works. But the house bedroom bathroom kitchen bit is more important than the (((()))). Maybe I'm thinking about this too much (read, I am thinking about this too much) but maybe the data / use is more important than the structure
- tmtvl 4y agoLife, like brackets, is about balance. Four walls with a roof don't make a home, but a bed, cupboard, toilet, stove, table, chairs, and bath set up out in the open don't make much of a home either. The internals need the structure just as much as the structure needs the internals.
- ithkuil 4y agoCan you exit a house built by (balanced) parens? If not, it's a prison.
- sph 4y agoYou might be right. I haven't escaped yet, I'm wrapped in more parens than I first started.
- buggythebug 4y agoI still do! People like to talk about Lisp on here because Paul Graham made it cool to. That's it. Are any major/important things be done today that are using Lisp??