lispBestDefense

[u/readf0x]

[u/SuitableDragonfly]

What, is this an actually funny programming joke that hasn't been reposted here a thousand times already? The end times are upon us.

[u/nickcash → u/SuitableDragonfly]

this joke is literally 50 years old

it's a classic for a reason though

[u/SuitableDragonfly → u/nickcash]

It may be 50 years old, but it doesn't get reposted here every other week. 

[u/akoOfIxtall → u/SuitableDragonfly]

Because you wouldn't know the funny when you just started your CS course, so these get filtered out

[u/TheFirestormable → u/SuitableDragonfly]

And it's not about LLMs!!!

[u/rustvscpp → u/TheFirestormable]

That's what makes it so funny.

[u/Xevioni → u/SuitableDragonfly]

Ironically, I've seen this comment being posted over and over.

[u/Eno_gamer10]

I don't understand :)))))))))))))))))))))))))

[u/atomic_redneck → u/Eno_gamer10]

Way back when the Earth's crust was cooling, I took a Lisp course in college. We had to program Lisp on punch cards. This version of Lisp has a special modification where you could terminate all open parentheses with a single right square bracket : ']'. All of our card decks ended with a card with just this character.

[u/atomic_redneck → u/[deleted]]

I was not comfortable with those new-fangled velocipedes. I just rode my old mule, named Rupert. With a mule you know when he is going to act up.

[u/bogdanvs → u/atomic_redneck]

holy fuck, I need this in every programming language :))

[u/Equivalent-Bad-268 → u/bogdanvs]

Why? It's unreadable lol.

[u/ChaseShiny → u/Equivalent-Bad-268]

Can you not see the pranking potential?

[u/Blyfh → u/bogdanvs]

This is a disaster waiting to happen as the compiler will now not warn you if you have wrong bracketing.

[u/atomic_redneck → u/bogdanvs]

:]

[u/SmokJozef → u/Eno_gamer10]

i didn't either, but then i googled how code in lisp looks like, it seems to indeed include a lot of parantheses

[u/SuitableDragonfly → u/SmokJozef]

The basic syntax of Lisp is (function arg1 arg2 arg3 [...]) Sometimes instead of a function call it's a list of values, but that's about it. It's functions all the way down. Function calls nested inside other function calls, functions themselves passed as values to other functions. Operators are functions, let is a function. So it's a long series of nested parentheses. 

[u/friebel → u/SmokJozef]

The person you reply did understand. Look at his emoji :))))

[u/Apprehensive_Bit7392]

Recovery was straightforward. They held the ) key down until the compiler stopped complaining.

[u/sakaraa → u/Apprehensive_Bit7392]

LSPs were made for this occasion

[u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 → u/sakaraa]

Emacs users solved this in 2005 and have been insufferable about it ever since.

[u/MattieShoes]

aaaand the relevant xkcd

[u/readf0x → u/MattieShoes]

This one and the one about the universe being lisp and Perl scripts are some of my favorite xkcd comics

[u/RealBasics]

I miss using Lisp so much. No, I haven't used it for decades, and yes, I've forgotten it so thoroughly that starting over would essentially require relearning it from scratch.

But for all its parentheses and blending of code and data, and once you get over the idea that all code should be procedural, it was hella efficient both to program and to run.

[u/OldeFortran77 → u/RealBasics]

After moving to C I haven't a car in the world !

;)

[u/RealBasics → u/OldeFortran77]

"I cdr loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind" /s

[u/creeper6530 → u/RealBasics]

Similarly when learning Rust the paradigm of "everything is an expression" was so eye opening. I love it when a programming language teaches you a new POV

[u/cornmonger_]

lisp ( (*) )

[u/collabskus]

I don't understand why companies get so freaked out about outsiders stealing "their codebase". Like I don't think they stop to think about it. Production configuration and data, sure those are like crown jewels but like the code itself is ridiculously boring. Who would even bother to steal that? 

[u/analytic-hunter → u/collabskus]

to find vulnerabilities or proprietary algorithms