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 More options Jun 20 2008, 2:34 pm
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From: viper-2 <visio...@mail.infochan.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:34:49 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Jun 20 2008 2:34 pm
Subject: Re: One reason Lisp hasn't caught on: the name
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On Jun 19, 8:45 pm, Kenny <kentil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> viper-2 wrote:
> > On Jun 19, 5:36 pm, Kenny <kentil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Lawdy how I love this NG.

> > Kenny, you led the way with the poetry.

> I did?

Yes, you said " ... it might help if you realize they had no idea they
had just created the perfect language and would be living with the
name for eternity."

For which Pascal said thanks, and which Kent thought was poetry.

I've got law on the brain and couldn't get the metre right, but the
Cylon Oracle chanted these final 2 just now, instead of  revealing
more about the final 5:

Comes as we Lisp, in keystrokes bold,
Mysteries of Lambda, compiling unfold,
Code as data, progs writing progs,
Lisp transcendental, to dialect rogues.

>   There was a young man from Devizes
>   Whose balls were of different sizes.
>   The one was so small
>   'Twas no ball at all,
>   But the other one several prizes.

> I did not know that counted. Cool!

No, lopsided configurations never count. ;-)

Got to run!

--agt


 
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