Pascal Costanza wrote:
> Another article popped up:
> http://www.builderau.com.au/program/soa/A-Quickstart-to-Common-Lisp/0,339024614,339280188,00.htm
Looks like no obvious bugs, but no interesting things to attract newcomers
and at the second page there is a line like this:
(do ((i 0 (+ 1 i))) ((> i 10)) (print i))
As an unbiased reader, I always knew that Lisp is an acronym for "Lots of
Irritating Superfluous Parentheses", so this language is not for me :-)
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Frank Buss wrote:
> Pascal Costanza wrote:
>
>> Another article popped up:
>> http://www.builderau.com.au/program/soa/A-Quickstart-to-Common-Lisp/0,339024614,339280188,00.htm
>
> Looks like no obvious bugs, but no interesting things to attract newcomers
> and at the second page there is a line like this:
>
> (do ((i 0 (+ 1 i))) ((> i 10)) (print i))
>
> As an unbiased reader, I always knew that Lisp is an acronym for "Lots of
> Irritating Superfluous Parentheses", so this language is not for me :-)
The author seems to be heading for a series of articles, so let's see
how it will evolve.
Pascal
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+ Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>:
| As an unbiased reader, I always knew that Lisp is an acronym for
| "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses", so this language is
| not for me :-)
Oh. I thought it was one of those recursive acronyms:
LISP Is Seriously Powerful. Or LISP Is Superbly Programmable.
Or LISP Is Sexprs Proliferating. Or whatever.
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* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:08 +0200, Frank Buss wrote:
> Pascal Costanza wrote:
>
>> Another article popped up:
>> http://www.builderau.com.au/program/soa/A-Quickstart-to-Common-Lisp/0,339024614,339280188,00.htm
>
> Looks like no obvious bugs, but no interesting things to attract newcomers
> and at the second page there is a line like this:
>
> (do ((i 0 (+ 1 i))) ((> i 10)) (print i))
>
> As an unbiased reader, I always knew that Lisp is an acronym for "Lots of
> Irritating Superfluous Parentheses", so this language is not for me :-)
He also conflates macros and functions:
"These two [do- forms] are both specialised[sic] versions of the DO
function, which works like a combination of a while and a for in other
languages. It has three branches: the loop variable definition, stopping
condition and the body of the statement"
Matt
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