/prog/ - fucking shivers

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-27 18:20

I was reading my daily SICP as I came across a snippet that gave me the fucking shivers:



(define (cons x y)

  (define (dispatch m)

    (cond ((= m 0) x)

          ((= m 1) y)

          (else (error "Argument not 0 or 1 -- CONS" m))))

  dispatch)



(define (car z) (z 0))



(define (cdr z) (z 1))

My life has changed.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-27 18:23

You have to go into more detail. How has your life changed?

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-27 18:29

>>2
How has your life changed?

The Sussmann implements cons, car and cdr upon a purely functional layer and provides me with an absolutely new way of looking at things [spoiler]esp., since I'm coming from [m]C[m][/spoiler].

Impressive.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-27 19:12

Hence the saying that Scheme is an interpreter for the untyped lambda calculus.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-27 19:27

I was reading my Scsh Reference Manual as I came across a snippet:

Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit ``fooling around with computers,'' go to med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?

My God, no one could blame me -- no one! -- if I went off the edge and just lost it completely one day. I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals. I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few strong points about the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.

If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think.

Oh, yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.

Olin Shivers
Cambridge
September 4, 1994

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-27 19:34

>>5
Ah yes, Olin. See also http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/opinion.html or http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/autoweapons.html

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-28 0:06

>>5
He's visibly upset.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-28 1:39

>>5,6
This is sufficiently snarky to qualify for honorary Bretonship.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-28 3:23

Who should I thank?
Stopped reading right there.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-28 4:14

>>1
cons in functional manner is shit-tier.

KS-Combinators on the other hand are the tools of gods.
(also since I-combinator is redundant(or should I say retarted) so let's pretend it was never born)

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-28 9:56

>>5
Can't help but notice how fucking Shivers uses ``faggot quotes''.

Name: Anonymous 2010-12-17 1:40

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