A strange feeling

So I began reading the book you guys are always talking about, "SICP". As I already know C quite well, the beginning of the first chapter was quite boring. But when I came to the part about procedures, a light suddenly switched on in my brain. The lot of annoying parenthesis became a beautiful tree of procedures. I began to see the data flowing perfectly through it's nodes, being processed again and again until they merge and reach the final point of their existance : the top node of the tree.

Later this day, I was getting drunk with some friends. Then came the usual drunk talk about the meaning of life with low-level philosophy. When I was asked my opinion on the subject, I answered that the Universe is a giant list, and the meaning of life is to discover the first operator of this list. They stared at me and an awkward silence followed.

What's happening to me, /prog/ ?

>>1
What's happening to you is similar to what makes /b/-tards: your soul is changing. With /b/, the soul decays and falls away: with /prog/, it becomes a machine.

...the fractal flowers and recursive roots -- the most lovely hack I've seen....

>>1
You are walking your path to achieve Satori. This means you will one day comprehend this first operator. But you don't have to rush it. Enjoy the path. Follow your new spiritual guides, Sussman and Abelson.

^________^

I bet two cents that the first operator is either loop or define

http://xkcd.com/224/

>>6
its lambda duh!

>>7
Win

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