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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?
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Here's the reference - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally
Thanks! This one somehow slipped under my radar.
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…
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…
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
Note to self: learn a lisp. Lisp people appear to be having more fun than the rest of us.
If you're serious about learning a Lisp but motivated more by, as you say, "having more fun" rather than, say, landing a six-figure job writing it professionally... then may I recommend Janet[0] for your consideration. Janet is an embeddably-small, yet surprisingly batteries-included Lisp implemented in pure C. In terms of syntax and core library it borrows more directly from Clojure than from Scheme, but all the modern Lisps have their bits of influence. I've found both the language and the tiny little community that exists around it delightful.
As an example of the latter, somebody smart wrote a real actual book[1] about Janet recently that was on the HN front page for a day or so when he first released it. It's a gentle introduction not just to Janet but to Lisp in general, and assumes only general proficiency with JavaScript to get you up to speed. I recommend it.
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…