Re: New Song for Xah [was Re: Kent Pitman's essay on why lisp doesn't have copying of lists.]

Xah Lee wrote:
On Jan 31, 1:53 pm, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kenny, ask yourself what is a linked list. And, why, almost all modern
languages, doesn't have it?? is it because that's why lisp is superior
than them all? Is it because all modern lang creators, committees, the
Haskellers, the Meta Language Ocaml F# are stupid? Larry Wall of Perl
is a moron, Guido of Python is a moron, Yukihiro of Ruby is moron,
Rich of Clojure is a moron, Lutz of newlisp is moron? O, and Stephen
of Mathematica is a moron, in your opinion, hum?
Sorry to throw you off by focusing on linked lists. The problem is one
of what gets copied if one just says "copy", and this has to do with
shallow vs deep structure. I do not know why Kent said static languages
know what to copy because AFAIK only pure functional languages would not
have that problem because the copy is always deep (and then they go to
work on fixing that efficiency nightmare).

my gribe is rather not technical details on Common Lisp of Kent's
essay. It's more about how that essay, illustrate my point to a T,
about lisp's cons as discussed in my essay.

It is not a technical detail. Deep copying is not about pointer-free languages.

As to Second Life, I am not looking for more ways to get fat sitting at a computer, I am looking for another tennis partner.

As for "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley, there was a play button on that page you need to find it because it is an amazing tune, won some awards that year.

hth,kzo
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