We have a wizard, a servant, and a lambda symbol which appears to be on fire. WHO PUTS SHIT LIKE THIS IN A BOOK ON PROGRAMMING? IT'S A JOKE BOOK DISGUISED AS A BOOK ON PROGRAMMING. EVERY TIME I OPEN IT I THINK A SNAKE IS GOING TO POP OUT AND ASK "HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?". WHAT A CRAZY BOOK.
JAMES "THE FATHER OF JAVA" GOSLING NEVER COUNTED ON SOMETHING AS NUTS AS THIS. IMAGINE IF HE OPENS THE BOOK ONE DAY AND POP! OUT COMES A FUCKING SNAKE! THEN WHILE THE FAT FUCK IS BUSY SHITTING HIMSELF IT'LL EAT HIM IN ONE QUICK SWOOP.
IT'S NOT JUST A CRAZY JOKE BOOK WITH A WIZARD, WEIRD FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, AND A FUCK-LOAD OF PARENTHESES; IT'S A THREAT TO MANKIND.
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Louis Reasoner2012-06-04 21:22
OH LOOK, NOW GERALD SUSSMAN IS RUNNING AROUND ON MY LAWN BUTT-NAKED. WHAT A FUCKING TRAGEDY.
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Anonymous2012-06-04 21:31
THE GARBAGE COLLECTOR WANTS TO KNOW WTF WITH THIS THREAD
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Anonymous2012-06-04 22:27
Garbage collectors are nosey.
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Anonymous2012-06-04 22:42
>>1
it is obviously a reference to lambda calculus, are you stupid or something ?
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Anonymous2012-06-04 22:57
Lame, do calc your ass.
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Anonymous2012-06-05 0:33
Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer's spells. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform.
A computational process, in a correctly working computer, executes programs precisely and accurately. Thus, like the sorcerer's apprentice, novice programmers must learn to understand and to anticipate the consequences of their conjuring. Even small errors (usually called bugs or glitches) in programs can have complex and unanticipated consequences.
Fortunately, learning to program is considerably less dangerous than learning sorcery, because the spirits we deal with are conveniently contained in a secure way. Real-world programming, however, requires care, expertise, and wisdom.
Remembering the words of Chekhov that "everything about man should be beautiful" and looking at the Jews, you keep feeling that the Jews seemingly have been deliberately bred as antipode of a man, about whom everything is ugly: the face, the clothes, the soul and the thoughts. So I think that the famous Jewish uncleanliness and smell of kitchens and Jewish settlements, of which always came an unbearable smell of filth, pigwashes, onion and garlic, have a very ancient tradition. A friend of mine, a great lover of women, even once told me that Jewish women are really terrible, terrible stink - they emit inexpressible sickening stench. So that he later learned to detect the Jews based on this scent and tried to avoid contact with them - every time dealing with the Jews made him feel physically sick.
Rozanov has rightly remarked that the mikveh is a very important element of Jewish nationalism. After all, it allows all Jews to join and to plunge in their own filth. And if a Jew accustomed to without disgust paddle in the sticky mire of sweat, urine and filth of all their female relatives, for all the rest he can easily forgive a Jew. Through the mikveh lies the unity of the Jews through the filth and stench, introduction to the national body. Actually, this is the construction Jewish nationalism - the unity in filth, and the evils of the common crimes. And perhaps that is why Judaism is so attractive to all kinds of perverts and degenerates, even of gentile origin. Not surprisingly, the Jewish sect of the Essenes died out because of mikvehs and unsanitary.