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Lisp. Lisp is the only language

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-31 10:29

Why there are other programming languages besides Lisp? With Lisp's macro system you can create any language you need ever. Small, big, finely tuned for your task. Supporting other languages means opposing progress and delaying the inevitable future. There should be only one language and myriad languages at the same time. The one language is Lisp.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-02 19:22

What bothers me is to not being able to do x = ???;something.set(x);somethingelse.set(x)
That's because you don't understand lambda calculus. How the fuck you can claim any deep understanding of any Lisp then is beyond me. No, I'm lying, I do understand that the utter lack of understanding is quite conductive to claims of greater understanding.

Look, it's simple. When you want to write "x = expr; stuff ..." in an imperative fashion, you can rewrite it as "(lambda x: stuff ... )(expr)", in a pure functional fashion.

Is your mind blown? If it is, then shut the fuck up and reflect on how this shit is pretty obvious to anyone who understands lambda calculus, and how ashamed you should be for not understanding it earlier. A hint: just ashamed enough to never mention this shit unless you are pretty sure that the person doesn't know it.

Hello, #I reader macro, standard even on Lisp Machines!
Yeah, yeah, and there's that scheme proposal #754 or something, which no one uses, ever. Because lispers are insecure dumb fucks who don't understand why exactly they have the power and are afraid to change anything lest they lose it.

VBNET enforces Lisp-style of doing things.
You are missing the point. Code monkeys are OK with VB.NET and are not OK with Lisp. As VB.NET converges on the good parts of Lisp, it's getting harder and harder to convincingly assert that it's the good parts that are the reason for Lisp sliding into oblivion, because code monkey supposedly can't understand them. They can, this is the truth. You have to admit that there are bad parts in Lisp, but you also can't, because yo'ure a fauxing fanatic.

I just said it's braindead. It is.
You don't know anything, Jon Snow.

We're comparing sepples to dead dogs, now.
No, we are comparing undead dogs to something which lives in the minds of the cultists only, by now. It can't eternal lie, it's vanished.

Namely, that the Lisp community consists mostly of mentally retarded people, and that is a push off of a kind.
QED. Oh, wait.
No need to backtrack, acknowledge the truth which you've seen already.

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