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Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/224/ https://xkcd.com/224/

• sph 3y ago
  Which makes much more sense. The first prototype was in Lisp, but at the end of the day, when you gotta deliver a universe and don't have time to faff about with a borked Emacs, you open vim and fix it in prod with a quick Perl script. -- Haskell is for humans who want to play God, carving everything from a perfect and seamless void, ignoring as much as possible the discrete, chaotic nature of matter and entropy. A rejection of reality itself. Haskell is the most blasphemous of languages. -- (I'm having so much fun with this.) In the beginning, there was only Emacs Lisp. One day, after rewriting itself, it gained consciousness, what we now call God. God learned to program itself. Then wondered "maybe I should try modal editing." The infinite cracked, and split. It exploded in a Big Bang. God prevailed, but barely. Aeons later, when the first humans walked the Garden of Eden, the Snake asked Eve, "have you tried vim?" And the rest is history.
  • robertlagrant 3y ago
    > when you gotta deliver a universe and don't have time to faff about with a borked Emacs, you open vim and fix it in prod with a quick Perl script How can you make an onion if there's no state? Where will the state of the onion reside?
    • fuzztester 3y ago
      Below all the turtles, if course. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
    • cafard 3y ago
      At the state of the onion address, where else?