I'm real happy for you anon, and I'ma let you finish but LISP is the best language ever discovered.
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Anonymous2009-09-17 8:22
>>54 language ever discovered.
yeah, this sounds like something that Kanye West would say.
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Anonymous2009-09-17 8:36
>>55
With all due respect to McCarthy, Sussman and Graham, they didn't invent Lisp, but discovered it. It is not an understatement of their achievement, it's the fact of life: some things like natural numbers, Lie groups and parentheses are eternal and immutable, and are merely brought to light by the human genius, not "created" or "invented".
It's funny you know that sometimes you are an eager beaver catching the worm, but sometimes its better to be a chicken because then you have the beak. it's all about having the right tool for the job you see. Once I tried to hammer things in with a shoe, but it broke my shoe. I had to have it mended, but still I had no hammer, so I had to use a book to hammer the nails into the shoe to repair it. Guess what! The book broke too. It was my favourite book so I needed to mend that,
but still i had no shoe, so I had to use a rumbo-mungo-zumba-pigeon. This is a rare pigeon found only in the land of the former republic of rumbo-mungo-zumba and it is shaped like a hammer. I had picked one up from the shores of the grand lake of rumbo-mungo-zumba. It had been flying low to catch a fish, and I rose nimbly to snatch it out the air. "Coo!", he cried. That'll learn him.
I took him home and dried him out over a fire of potassium. This gives a hard outer potassium casing for optimum hammering. Then I hammer my book, shoe, and then whatever the hell it was I used the shoe as a hammer for in the first place.