I saw that at the same time I was reading about the new features in C# 3.0, and thinking that it's getting more and more lisp-like with each rev.

Every once in a while I still fire up Basilisk to run Macintosh Common LISP. On a Core 2 Duo, it's approximately 12 gajillion times faster than it ever was on a 68040.

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Sorry, I just remember that from the "split-p soup" joke.

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Truly epic =]

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I don't think there's anything elegant about the following:
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you prefer

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eh?

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...yes. Yes I do.

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Seconded.

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This might be the best known argument for Python.

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It's not only elegant, it's worth making jokes about!
"Plz read OP N try2," as the kids might say.

However, it's not like it's difficult or hard to read if you use a decent editor or even remotely sane dev.environment.

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If you're going to be petty about the parens thing, try Haskell...

(f(g(h(i(j 1 2 3))))) is roughly equivalent to f . g . h . i . j 1 2 3

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Haskell also has the lovely '$' operator for when you're currying functions, not just composing them. It basically funtions as a open paren that doesn't use a closing one.

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The Fahlman approves.

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You forgot to copy the "title" attribute, which is as much a part of the strip as each of the panels.

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Come back, Shane!

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Lisp users have children?

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Luke, I be'est thy father..

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I've very much enjoyed reading xkcd. The thing about the patterns in floor tiles - true. I reread the whole archive when I discovered I had been missing the additional commentary in the image's title attribute.

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The title attribute thing annoys me because my stoopid browser truncates them.

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If your stupid browser is Firefox, there's a plugin for that.

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That's fixed in Firefox 3 alpha builds, FWIW.

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