2026-04-23 06:16 UTC
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @vnikolov@ieji.de @spook@pleroma.m68k.church
Ah, that makes so much sense; I've always wondered.
So that's why so much "Lisp" code looks so terrible...How sad!
Thanks for educating me.
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2026-04-23 06:20
@janneke@todon.nl @vnikolov@ieji.de @spook@pleroma.m68k.church Well, you know, my view is controversial. And back in the 1980s when we were really fighting wars about the future of #Lisp (yes, the barbarians won, hence Common Lisp), we used to say 'some people can write FORTRAN in any language' -- which is actually more or less true. I have seen some dreadful code in #Scheme in my day, and some very elegant code in Common Lisp. The modern Lisps -- #Clojure, #Jank etc. -- are worth looking at. They really do encourage good style.
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@vnikolov@ieji.de 2026-04-23 07:11
Real Programmers™ can write bad programs in any language. And they do. Ha ha only serious... @janneke@todon.nl @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @spook@pleroma.m68k.church