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Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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now all it needs is a text editor! ha ha!

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Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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i think he does

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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without lisp you goofballs would still be banging out imperatives

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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The Management posted:

machine code is imperative. higher level languages that aren't are just scripting an imperative code generator.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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Ator posted:

why not just have a lisp shell wrap a normal os??

i guess i dont 'get it'
"Hmm that's an interesting oak dresser you built, but why didn't youjust buy one from ikea and paint it?"

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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wrong

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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if it's offensive that's only because there are so many programmers doing lovely work for pay

cf: the english frame riots

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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btw op all my vms are in use rn so idkwts

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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eschaton posted:

people who talk about Lisp as a high level or functional language have never dealt with ldb or loop

most real world Lisp is imperative and/or OO, only students doing coursework write code functional-style or with needless recursion

since there is no real world lisp my point stnads

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:

must note again that that suggestion is in the original '58 paper

overall quite safe to dismiss people who complain loudly about the parenthesis as bikeshedders, if nothing else because most lisps have far more serious issues than syntactic details (possibly excepting clojure, i will admit that i don't know it well enough, but everyitng i have ever seen of it has seemed fantastically reasonable)
i was gonna refer to the whole M-expr/S-expr history but





Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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watch your language

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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Stymie posted:

programming is a spiritually and materially rewarding occupation for mathematically-inclined people that improves public quality of life
:agreed:

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Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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Lambda: The Ultimate Laxative

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