LISP is the root of all ev...
Serguey Zefirov
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When a language, despite not supporting s-expr style syntax, implements an AST
based macro system ( MetaLua, Converge, ... ), Lisp lawyers will sue the
language designer for violating the intellectual property of the Lisp
community. As a consequence the accused and convicted programmer has to
undergo a therapy where the beauty, poetry, art, historical relevance,
superiority and what not of Lisp is explained to him. He has to publically
admit that he was at least "inspired" by Lisp ( well, it doesn't cost much )
and respects the prior art of any modern language contruct by the Lisp
community. There is no escape from Lisp since Lisp owns all your ideas in
advance. Everything converges to Lisp in the end which is the ready-made of
the end of the power hierarchy ( only quantum computing may change this but
then we come up with quantum-Lisp ). The only possibility to esacpe the
depressive fact of lack of originality is to convert to the one true
programming language.
A serious nutcase who continues to dismiss the merrits of homogenous syntax
after all is advised a second therapy where the evolutionary model of the Lisp
community is explained to him: with macros you are, as a language designer on
the same level as an application programmer. When we don't like your
language=application design, we shoot your ideas down. That's how the whole
computing science progresses and so it will ever be.
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Yours truly, Serguey Zefirov (thesz AT mail DOT ru)