Title: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: xytroxon on January 20, 2010, 11:23:57 PM
Post by: xytroxon on January 20, 2010, 11:23:57 PM
What would a newLISPer look like?
-- xytroxon
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: cormullion on January 21, 2010, 10:48:29 AM
Post by: cormullion on January 21, 2010, 10:48:29 AM
As for newLISP - how about
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: xytroxon on January 22, 2010, 09:43:55 AM
Post by: xytroxon on January 22, 2010, 09:43:55 AM
The AI LISPers of the 80s (or any sci/tech college student in the 70s and 80s), identified with the futurism of Star Trek... And Captain James T. Kirk was their iconic hero... So much so, that a write-in campaign by American viewers resulted in the revival of the Star Trek universe... (After the Star Wars uber-commercialism proved a market existed for Sci-Fi...)
I remember in the mid 70s, my college had a "TV room" at the student center... Every day at 4 PM, when Star Trek was re-run by the local television station, the TV room was packed full of us "nerds" in total silence and rapt attention...
"Some men see things as they are and ask 'Why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'" Robert F. Kennedy
And as the result of those bold inspirations, you can now talk on your "communicator" and read your "tri-corder" while you queue in line for the stunning visual, but vapid storyline, of the "Avatar" movie...
Okay, so the future many not be perfect, yet...
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Quote from: "cormullion"As for newLISP - how about. this(//http)
What??? No solar powered, super bright white LED flashlight in the handle? (Or did I miss it? ;)
-- xytroxon
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: Kazimir Majorinc on January 22, 2010, 03:23:11 PM
Post by: Kazimir Majorinc on January 22, 2010, 03:23:11 PM
Another one passionate Newlisper:
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: itistoday on January 23, 2010, 04:19:48 PM
Post by: itistoday on January 23, 2010, 04:19:48 PM
Quote from: "Kazimir Majorinc"This is how I imagine average Newlisp user:
You know I have to say I don't look anything like that... at all. ;-p
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: Kazimir Majorinc on January 23, 2010, 10:59:31 PM
Post by: Kazimir Majorinc on January 23, 2010, 10:59:31 PM
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: cormullion on January 24, 2010, 09:38:38 AM
Post by: cormullion on January 24, 2010, 09:38:38 AM
(My swiss army knife was about how newLISP has all the tools you need in one package...)
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: Kazimir Majorinc on January 24, 2010, 04:22:16 PM
Post by: Kazimir Majorinc on January 24, 2010, 04:22:16 PM
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: m i c h a e l on January 24, 2010, 05:21:52 PM
Post by: m i c h a e l on January 24, 2010, 05:21:52 PM
Quote from: "cormullion"My swiss army knife was about how newLISP has all the tools you need in one package...
While I agree with your conclusion, cormullion, the original contained photos of people (or people-like objects, at least), and in your analogy, us poor newLISPers become literal tools :-)
Remember, however, that this was how a Common Lisper views us, so it's probably something more like this:
;-)
m i c h a e l
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: xytroxon on January 25, 2010, 02:01:09 AM
Post by: xytroxon on January 25, 2010, 02:01:09 AM
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: itistoday on January 25, 2010, 08:31:28 AM
Post by: itistoday on January 25, 2010, 08:31:28 AM
Quote from: "xytroxon"(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020812/15495__wrath_l.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs%20...%20rath_l.jpg%22%3Ehttp://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020812/15495__wrath_l.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)Star Trek II: "The Wrath of newLISP"
I think this fits best with the theme of the original chart because this way newLISP is in the same "universe" as the other LISPs.
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: cormullion on January 25, 2010, 09:21:42 AM
Post by: cormullion on January 25, 2010, 09:21:42 AM
I now realise that I don't have the necessary background knowledge or geek credentials to take part in threads like this... :-]
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: xytroxon on January 25, 2010, 01:12:38 PM
Post by: xytroxon on January 25, 2010, 01:12:38 PM
Quote from: "cormullion"Thanks Kazimir. The connection is obvious, now that you point it out to me
I now realise that I don't have the necessary background knowledge or geek credentials to take part in threads like this... :-]
"You see, the newLISP FOOP ell young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the LISPer's cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to the suggestion of object oriented programming paradigms. Later, as they grow, follows madness... and death..."
- Khan, about the newLISP FOOP Ceti eels
Title: Re: How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages
Post by: Lutz on January 25, 2010, 03:51:51 PM
Post by: Lutz on January 25, 2010, 03:51:51 PM
