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− | But, despite | + | But, despite it's age, Lisp is also a high-level language and lispers probably spend more of their time dealing with higher-level abstractions than perlists. |
What's causing the narrator's marvel in the comic is that Lisp has a very elegant (almost non-existent) syntax and the language has a very close relationship with the underlying syntactical structure of the program, and that thinking about it does tend to give suitably-minded hackers feelings of awe and reverence, once they grok it. Even Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, will readily concede that Lisp is beautiful. | What's causing the narrator's marvel in the comic is that Lisp has a very elegant (almost non-existent) syntax and the language has a very close relationship with the underlying syntactical structure of the program, and that thinking about it does tend to give suitably-minded hackers feelings of awe and reverence, once they grok it. Even Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, will readily concede that Lisp is beautiful. | ||
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I don't know whether it's important or not, but the line "My God, it's full of stars!" is the title of a chapter in The Little Schemer, which is considered (IMO) a classic CompSci book. If Randall has, by chance, read the book he may have also pulled the inspiration from there as well as 2001. I don't know whetiher this warrents a trivia block or not. [[Special:Contributions/67.176.146.186|67.176.146.186]] 06:34, 27 October 2013 (UTC) | I don't know whether it's important or not, but the line "My God, it's full of stars!" is the title of a chapter in The Little Schemer, which is considered (IMO) a classic CompSci book. If Randall has, by chance, read the book he may have also pulled the inspiration from there as well as 2001. I don't know whetiher this warrents a trivia block or not. [[Special:Contributions/67.176.146.186|67.176.146.186]] 06:34, 27 October 2013 (UTC) | ||
− | :the quote comes from the book, not the movie. | + | :the quote comes from the book, not the movie. |
Lisp is the best language, unfortunately it's not that widely used. | Lisp is the best language, unfortunately it's not that widely used. | ||
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Lisp is a high and low level language. | Lisp is a high and low level language. | ||
− | The worst programming language ever has to be Kodu game lab. Or possibly Malbodge. | + | The worst programming language ever has to be Kodu game lab. Or possibly Malbodge. |
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