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Advanced Practical Recursion in Lisp 1.0

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Re: Advanced Practical Recursion in Lisp 1.0

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So it's a recursive technique named "APRiL 1.0" published on April 1st, and it's not an April fools? The code is a bit to intricate for me to completely get it. :(

Well i'm not that fluent in clojure, but you gotta get that it's a joke when he talks about removing map and reduce from the language :)

Re: Advanced Practical Recursion in Lisp 1.0

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So it's a recursive technique named "APRiL 1.0" published on April 1st, and it's not an April fools? The code is a bit to intricate for me to completely get it. :(

If you're honestly not getting the programming joke, you might want to read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_combinator#Y_combinator

The other possibility is, it's just not that funny. :)

Re: Advanced Practical Recursion in Lisp 1.0

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So it's a recursive technique named "APRiL 1.0" published on April 1st, and it's not an April fools? The code is a bit to intricate for me to completely get it. :(

If you're honestly not getting the programming joke, you might want to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_combinator#Y_combinator The other possibility is, it's just not that funny. :)

If you don't understand something immediately it's not funny. Thinking Not funny.