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Re: I accidentally a scheme

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People accidentally a scheme all the time. I first accidentalled a scheme in high school. I learned about S-types, which were to Lisp what JSON is to JavaScript. I made a language around then. Oops.

Some would argue Brendan Eich of Netscape accidentalled a scheme in JavaScript, but others would argue that he didn't. Most accidental schemes are pretty bad, and the original JavaScript fits the bill, or it doesn't, depending on what you think to be a scheme.

There's a law about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule

It comes up in most DSLs.

I bet this is a better accidental scheme, by virtue of the author, but a big part of the point of a scheme is that it's easy to implement, yet powerful. MIT freshman used to build a scheme interpreter and a scheme compiler in their first computer science course (6.001).

It's very easy to accidentally a scheme.

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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There doesn't seem to be a lot of fun valid English writing today. Certainly it seems the opposite is the norm, even at the highest levels of government.

But I found joy very early in this essay. "Tonight's missive is an apology: not quite in the sense of expiation, though not quite not that, either; rather, apology in the sense of explanation, of exegesis: apologia."

When an introduction provides such a concise but entertaining junglegym for the reader, surely the rest will be enlightening. And if not, we have short attention spans, so we click elsewhere :).

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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People accidentally a scheme all the time. I first accidentalled a scheme in high school. I learned about S-types, which were to Lisp what JSON is to JavaScript. I made a language around then. Oops. Some would argue Brendan Eich of Netscape accidentalled a scheme in JavaScript, but others would argue that he didn't. Most accidental schemes are pretty bad, and the original JavaScript fits the bill, or it doesn't, depe…

I think Eich intentionallyed a scheme.

Re: I accidentally a scheme

#5

People accidentally a scheme all the time. I first accidentalled a scheme in high school. I learned about S-types, which were to Lisp what JSON is to JavaScript. I made a language around then. Oops. Some would argue Brendan Eich of Netscape accidentalled a scheme in JavaScript, but others would argue that he didn't. Most accidental schemes are pretty bad, and the original JavaScript fits the bill, or it doesn't, depe…

thats scheme accidentallification

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Could someone please explain the missing verb in the title? It's clearly a deliberate omission in the linked post (which also has a section heading "one does not simply a scheme"), but I don't get it. Something to do w/ garbage collection, or a scheme inside joke?

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Could someone please explain the missing verb in the title? It's clearly a deliberate omission in the linked post (which also has a section heading "one does not simply a scheme"), but I don't get it. Something to do w/ garbage collection, or a scheme inside joke?

Here's the reference - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

Re: I accidentally a scheme

#8

Could someone please explain the missing verb in the title? It's clearly a deliberate omission in the linked post (which also has a section heading "one does not simply a scheme"), but I don't get it. Something to do w/ garbage collection, or a scheme inside joke?

Here's the reference - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

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Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Could someone please explain the missing verb in the title? It's clearly a deliberate omission in the linked post (which also has a section heading "one does not simply a scheme"), but I don't get it. Something to do w/ garbage collection, or a scheme inside joke?

Here's the reference - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

Thanks! This one somehow slipped under my radar.
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