Re: [dev] lisp

2013-06-29 Thread Craig Brozefsky
ever, I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form, has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing, and that the New Jersey approach when used for software is a better approach than the MIT approach. Worse is Better - Richard Gabriel http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html -- Craig Brozefsky Premature reification is the root of all evil

Re: [dev] lisp

2013-07-01 Thread Craig Brozefsky
periences. They are not only simple, they make radically simpler programs. Taken together, they also enable programs that would be outrageously complex, and error prone in "easy" languages. -- Craig Brozefsky Premature reification is the root of all evil

Re: [dev] lisp

2013-07-02 Thread Craig Brozefsky
ur work less 'terse' than you want -- well, here's a nickle kid, get yourself a real program that writes programs that writes programs that writes *your* program. 8^) > And no libraries. Trollolololol. [1] http://programming-motherfucker.com/ -- Craig Brozefsky Premature reification is the root of all evil

Re: [dev] lisp

2013-07-02 Thread Craig Brozefsky
roll, which is a bit of a tradition here. I always thought programmers needed to know two languages: One to talk to machines, and one to talk to humans (including themselves). C for machines, and a lisp for symbolic computation. I think that dichotomy stands up well, even if the dividing