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Base #lisp seems to be like assembly language if you operate on strings (see split-sequence …) 😀🙈#twohourslispperday
Aug 8, 2023 at 10:02pmWeb
Show threadAndrew PizialiAug 8, 2023

@nutilius One of my favorite Lisp quotes, from none other than Larry Wall:

"[The computer programming language] Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in." -- Larry Wall, author of Perl, Linux Journal, March 1997

Show threadPomegranate County IrregularsAug 9, 2023

@apiziali @nutilius So, he responded with $’s galore?!?

Incidentally, when I’ve scrolled close enough to the doom asymptote, I shall be writing something in Dr Racket which has the Lisp aesthetic; to know it is to love it.

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 9, 2023
@apiziali @nutilius He who is without sin ...