/prog/ - You live in a world...

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 15:35

...where Lisp is the only programming language in existence. What would you do?

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 15:40

write a dsl.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 15:43

Read SICP.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 15:44

Write some ENTERPRISE QUALITY libraries before Oracle to become rich.

Then buy Oracle and shut it down.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 15:53

define a macro.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 15:56

How terrifying

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 16:16

>>4
Why would Oracle exist in such a world?

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 17:07

Implement a C compiler in lisp, and become a millionaire

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 17:21

>>7
If enterprises and Human Resources exists, Oracle exists.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 17:32

Rest assured knowing that I have no buffer overflows or memory leaks because I'm using a Lisp Machine where everything is strongly-typed dynamically-typed cons cells.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 17:33

Open my eyes. This computed world is so beautiful, so perfect... Think of a tree by the river and it's there, let's put another rainbow over that. Now I grow some wings, fly to my neighbor's island. I really enjoy being immortal, in a perpetual orgasmic satori.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 18:04

Program, just like I do now (in Lisp).

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 20:41

You live in a world where Lisp is the only programming language in existence.
Yes. I already live in such a world.

What would you do?
I'm happy, because I've reached enlightenment.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 20:55

Ask myself whether my brain is working right, since it's impossible for people to design hardware that somehow executes Lisp code directly, without realizing the existence of assembly language.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 21:04

>>14
Ask myself whether >>14's brain is working right, since people designed hardware that somehow executes Lisp code almost directly, using an internal stack-based architecture called the Lisp Machine.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 21:41

Write a metacircular evaluator in Lisp.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 21:49

>>15
Why would you ask yourself a rhetorical question?

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 0:15

Wait for this guy to do his thing >>8 and for C++ especially to come out.

Meanwhile focus on other things or become a hobo and go mad in a lisp world.

Name: F r o z e n V o i d !!mJCwdV5J0Xy2A21 2012-01-07 1:27

More realistic question:
What would you do if JavaScript was the only language?

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 5:02

I'd use Clojure.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 6:13

Implement syntax.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 6:22

Move to a different world.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 6:41

>>19
Kill myself.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 13:06

>>21
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Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 13:08

>>13
I'm happy, because I'm a level 45893 Paladin, and have been granted the gift of neverending virginity

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2 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 15:40

3 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 15:43

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6 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 15:56

7 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 16:16

8 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 17:07

9 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 17:21

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13 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 20:41

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16 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 21:41

17 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-06 21:49

18 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 0:15

19 Name: F r o z e n V o i d !!mJCwdV5J0Xy2A21 2012-01-07 1:27

20 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 5:02

21 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 6:13

22 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 6:22

23 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 6:41

24 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 13:06

25 Name: Anonymous 2012-01-07 13:08