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They missed a trick when they didn't call it Rich Friend Common Lisp (Originally based on Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp. Carnegie got rich in steel, M
by msla 3y ago
They missed a trick when they didn't call it Rich Friend Common Lisp
(Originally based on Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp. Carnegie got rich in steel, Mellon in banks, but both were rich, and Mellon is Elvish for Friend. Rich Friend Common Lisp. There. A bilingual pun about a Common Lisp implementation, where one of those languages is a conlang from a fantasy novel. Geekiest joke you'll hear all day.)
- jrflowers 3y agoThat would be a very belabored joke. I read the entire explanation of the joke twice and do not see how it could qualify as a “missed trick”
- gautamcgoel 3y agoI agree, "Steel Bank" is way more natural.
- jrflowers 3y agoI mean yeah, if we’re in Belabored Jokes Town (where Steel Bank was invented) it is relatively more natural than Rich Friend.
- p_l 3y agoThere's also the joke that SB stands for "Sanely Bootstrappable", which refers to how SBCL is easy to build from source without having a copy of SBCL.
- msla 3y agoEh, just a bit more work than Leiningen as a build automation tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Ant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Ant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants