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All Your Parentheses Are Belong to Us

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Re: All Your Parentheses Are Belong to Us

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Man, I really need to get around to learning Lisp. (Of course I've been telling myself for a few years now.)

Admittedly, as someone who's only ever used C, C++, C# and Java, Lisp seems so alien that I have a hard time understanding how anyone can do any non-trivial work in it. Then I look at all the awesome stuff that's been done in it and how many people are obsessed with it and, well, I definitely need to check it out at SOME point.

Re: All Your Parentheses Are Belong to Us

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post #2

Is it just me or do grammatically incorrect prominently placed titles annoy others as well? (I think Lisp rocks, of course, so I don't have an issue with the content)

The blog post title is a play on the "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

Re: All Your Parentheses Are Belong to Us

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post #2

Is it just me or do grammatically incorrect prominently placed titles annoy others as well? (I think Lisp rocks, of course, so I don't have an issue with the content)

The blog post title is a play on the "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

The point being that grammatical incorrectness is less annoying if it creates a snowclone.

Re: All Your Parentheses Are Belong to Us

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Man, I really need to get around to learning Lisp. (Of course I've been telling myself for a few years now.) Admittedly, as someone who's only ever used C, C++, C# and Java, Lisp seems so alien that I have a hard time understanding how anyone can do any non-trivial work in it. Then I look at all the awesome stuff that's been done in it and how many people are obsessed with it and, well, I definitely need to check it…

Just because you mentioned it, check out this primer: http://mypage.iu.edu/~colallen/lp/lp.html

Half way through the first chapter (about 11 pages, which is really shorter than a single nytimes article) it says something on the lines with "you have now a turing complete language at your disposal." At that point you can kind of extrapolate the myriad of possibilities available with the paradigm.

Re: All Your Parentheses Are Belong to Us

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Man, I really need to get around to learning Lisp. (Of course I've been telling myself for a few years now.) Admittedly, as someone who's only ever used C, C++, C# and Java, Lisp seems so alien that I have a hard time understanding how anyone can do any non-trivial work in it. Then I look at all the awesome stuff that's been done in it and how many people are obsessed with it and, well, I definitely need to check it…

Just because you mentioned it, check out this primer: http://mypage.iu.edu/~colallen/lp/lp.html Half way through the first chapter (about 11 pages, which is really shorter than a single nytimes article) it says something on the lines with "you have now a turing complete language at your disposal." At that point you can kind of extrapolate the myriad of possibilities available with the paradigm.

Thanks! I'll definitely check this out. Looks like a great starting resource.
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