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Name: Anonymous 2014-01-30 19:40

Why do you think this is so funny?

Do you think it's funny cause it's a play on an (as apparent to you) nonsensical phrase GNU/Linux?

Do you think it's funny because BSD and Gentoo aren't very popular, and require a lot of effort to maintain, so you think programmers use it cause programmers like things like this?

I am an expert programmer, and a Lisp wizard. I do not particularly care about UNIX politics, and view all current operating systems as retarded. However, I do like the GNU approach to UNIX (although not necessarily the reality) the most out of all the other approaches from a technical stand point.

Maybe you think installing these operating systems is a difficult act that only strange programmers would participate in.

I do not understand why you think ``install BSD/Gentoo'' is so amusing. Why do you place it everywhere?

Name: Anonymous 2014-02-06 12:27

>>58
More hair-splitting, please. It's very relevant and helps uncover genuine useful facts. Yes, I'm good enough to learn and use Haskell, at least a moderate level - you're probably not.
>>57
I admit it wasn't a good example, but it's good we agree that CL code doesn't satisfy the substitution principle, hence is not modular - and it doesn't matter what Lisp code looks like after macroexpansion, because the whole point of macros is that the programmer doesn't have to write the expanded code (or look at it, unless he's debugging macros).
And yes, I've used Lisp and know how ubiquitous macros are there - even setf is a macro! Even CLOS is semantically equivalent to a bunch of macros! There's a huge gap between what the Lisp programmer writes and what it expands to, and there's a reason Lisp macros have been largely rejected by the programming community at large, and have been incorporated into the mainstay languages in a more tame and guarded form. Macros are just too unpredictable and unwieldy to let them run rampant like (Common) Lisp does.
>>60
Ooh, the Wisp Wizard has an owie-owie. Pooh Wisp Wizard, he can't even define a function that would be polymorphic with a * -> * type parameter. Wun back to Mommy, Wispie Wizard, away fwom all these bad kids at that bad forum!

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