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Re: introduction to lisp
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: introduction to lisp |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:04:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
> What I mean: sometimes it makes sense to let
> people go the extra ten meters to meet the
> computer (mainly because there's an
> interesting spot to meet [1]), sometimes it
> makes sense to let the computer do the walk,
> perhaps because the spot to meet is pretty
> boring (personally, I find conventions to
> name keys pretty boring, to be honest).
>
> Which is which depends, of course, on Things
> :)
>
> [1] as is the case with lambda calculus and
> The Lisps. Giving up on traditional infix
> arithmetic may feel awkward at first, but
> tends to bring some kind of Enlightenment
> upon (some of) us. Then we get high and all
> worked up and try to convince others and they
> look at us with those strange looks ;-D
Hey, what's the secret? The only time *I'm*
this open-minded is when I take acid and then
I don't even care about computers anymore!
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