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Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by gardenhedge »

vidarh wrote: post #33
lkuty wrote: post #21

Is the title grammatically correct ? A verb is missing, don't you think... My mother tongue is french, thus I may be missing some pun.

It was originally a meta-joke way of pointing out you'd left something out by intentionally leaving out the verb in the sentence where you pointed out you'd left something out. It's since become a meme of sort as a more general way to flag as a joke that you've done something "accidentally" where a fully formed sentence would be more ambiguous. E.g. "I accidentally created a scheme" might still not be entirely seriou…

This is the role "lol" used to play. "I accidentally created a scheme lol"

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by farmdve »

m3kw9 wrote: post #40

Hurts my head reading the title

I had to login to HN which I have not done in many months just to say this to the young generation.

The title is from a meme. Like before the memes of today, when a meme was an image around a black frame with white text.

It usually goes "I accidentally a ".

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by tmtvl »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #16

Note to self: learn a lisp. Lisp people appear to be having more fun than the rest of us.

I recommend Common Lisp, it's fast, it's mature, and it has some wicked cool tools. You can find some resources here: https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp>. You can also look at CLiki (the Common Lisp wiki), the Common Lisp Cookbook, and the Common Lisp Community Spec for information any basically anything you may be interested in.

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by benj111 »

frognumber wrote: post #2

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…

Please people, wear protection when 'experimenting', especially as teenagers.

A scheme is for life, not just for Christmas.

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by benj111 »

gardenhedge wrote: post #41
vidarh wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was originally a meta-joke way of pointing out you'd left something out by intentionally leaving out the verb in the sentence where you pointed out you'd left something out. It's since become a meme of sort as a more general way to flag as a joke that you've done something "accidentally" where a fully formed sentence would be more ambiguous. E.g. "I accidentally created a scheme" might still not be entirely seriou…

This is the role "lol" used to play. "I accidentally created a scheme lol"

Doesn't "I accidentally a" predate lol?

I seem to recall it from high school, and that was before mobiles were widespread.

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by vidarh »

benj111 wrote: post #47
gardenhedge wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the role "lol" used to play. "I accidentally created a scheme lol"

Doesn't "I accidentally a" predate lol? I seem to recall it from high school, and that was before mobiles were widespread.

I now really want a comprehensive history of its use. It feels recent, but it's also the type of thing it'd be unsurprising to find isolated examples of independent "invention" of from long before it came into common use...

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by cnity »

dleslie wrote: post #27
cfiggers wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's literally dozens 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 t…

While I like Janet, and find it to be a lovely little language; I think it's important to note that it lacks lists and cons cells, and so as a result some people don't label it a lisp, and programming in it is unlike other lisp languages. It's similar, because the syntax is similar and the macros and various forms are lifted straight from lisps; but the feel of programming in it is very much like programming in C, an…

> Neither is conducive to efficiently removing elements mid-set, or composing two sets, or interleaving two sets, or other operations that require reordering, replacing, adding or removing elements in the set

Read this: https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/06/stroustrup-lists

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