Re: Practical Common Lisp reviewed on /.

"Eric Lavigne" <lavigne.eric@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> >The Lithp jokes have (predictably) started already
>
> I rather enjoyed some of them. This one for example:
>
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> There was a story of a hacker stole one of the A.I code from the
> government. The code turned out to be the last 100 pages of the
> program. It was all closing paranthesis. That should sum up how nasty
> the language is.
> =================================
>
> I wonder if anyone actually codes like that. Imagine how long a
> function would have to be in order to get more than one line worth of
> parentheses in a row.

It all started when god said:

(let ((light (make-light)) ...) ...)

And the entire universe was contained in the LET form.

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An ideal world is left as an excercise to the reader.
--- Paul Graham, On Lisp 8.1
No excuses. No apologies. Just do it.
--- Erik Naggum
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