Re: [dev] lisp

2013-07-02 Thread Craig Brozefsky
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 cr...@red-bean.com Premature reification is the root of all evil

Re: [dev] lisp

2013-07-02 Thread Craig Brozefsky
to humans (including themselves). C for machines, and a lisp for symbolic computation. I think that dichotomy stands up well, even if the dividing line moves around and is largely determined by the intent of the author and the context of deployment. -- Craig Brozefsky cr...@red-bean.com Premature

Re: [dev] lisp

2013-07-01 Thread Craig Brozefsky
. 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 cr...@red-bean.com Premature reification is the root of all evil

Re: [dev] lisp

2013-06-29 Thread Craig Brozefsky
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 cr...@red-bean.com Premature reification