Represent.

15 years ago
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20 Responses:

  1. flipping_hades says:
    15 years ago at 8:50 pm

    I saw that at the same time I was reading about the new features in C# 3.0, and thinking that it's getting more and more lisp-like with each rev.

    Every once in a while I still fire up Basilisk to run Macintosh Common LISP. On a Core 2 Duo, it's approximately 12 gajillion times faster than it ever was on a 68040.
  2. spike says:
    15 years ago at 9:17 pm

    *makes ( ) gang sign*
  3. remaker says:
    15 years ago at 9:49 pm

    Sorry, I just remember that from the "split-p soup" joke.
  4. debedb says:
    15 years ago at 11:12 pm

  5. jayp39 says:
    15 years ago at 12:04 am

    I don't think there's anything elegant about the following:
    ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
    • wetzel says:
      15 years ago at 12:33 am

      you prefer

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      eh?
    • greyface says:
      15 years ago at 2:19 am

      It's not only elegant, it's worth making jokes about!
      "Plz read OP N try2," as the kids might say.

      However, it's not like it's difficult or hard to read if you use a decent editor or even remotely sane dev.environment.
    • flipzagging says:
      15 years ago at 6:22 am

      If you're going to be petty about the parens thing, try Haskell...

      (f(g(h(i(j 1 2 3))))) is roughly equivalent to f . g . h . i . j 1 2 3
      • blasdelf says:
        15 years ago at 2:24 pm

        Haskell also has the lovely '$' operator for when you're currying functions, not just composing them. It basically funtions as a open paren that doesn't use a closing one.
  6. ch says:
    15 years ago at 12:12 am

    The Fahlman approves.
  7. grok_mctanys says:
    15 years ago at 1:52 am

    You forgot to copy the "title" attribute, which is as much a part of the strip as each of the panels.
  8. xach says:
    15 years ago at 5:15 am

    Come back, Shane!
  9. flipzagging says:
    15 years ago at 6:10 am

    Lisp users have children?
  10. ultranurd says:
    15 years ago at 6:23 am

    I've very much enjoyed reading xkcd. The thing about the patterns in floor tiles - true. I reread the whole archive when I discovered I had been missing the additional commentary in the image's title attribute.
  11. jef_poskanzer says:
    15 years ago at 8:32 am

    The title attribute thing annoys me because my stoopid browser truncates them.