/prog/ - sussman's 7th principle of turing completeness?

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-18 19:38

Can anybody fill me in on this? How does it work and does it apply to anything or just lisp?

Name: Taser 2016-10-19 1:44

If Chad makes a move on you, I will block him with my Army skills.

It's not him I'm worried about.

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-19 5:55

>>1
Any sufficiently complicated macro can be rewritten as bloated and inefficient functions.

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-19 16:54

>>3
Lisp was the language that represented a number N by a list of length N, so I don't see why the Lispers would whine about efficiency.

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-19 18:05

>>4
Lisp isn't the only language that uses macros.

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-19 19:55

>>4

Lisp was the language that represented a number N by a list of length N

You're joking, right?

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-19 21:33

sussman's 7th principle of turing completeness GET

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-20 3:55

>>6

You're joking, right?

McCarthy created the joke in 1960. He called it Lisp.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39093549/custom-sum-function-in-lisp
http://blog.isaachodes.io/p/set-theory-and-lisp/
http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-20 5:17

If SETI@home works, for example, we'll need libraries for communicating with aliens. Unless of course they are sufficiently advanced that they already communicate in XML.

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-20 6:56

>>9
Aliens As A Service: Enterprise Edition

Name: Anonymous 2016-10-20 9:13

>>8
If I was you, I would at least try to hide my foolishness.

sussman's 7th principle of turing completeness?

1 Name: Anonymous 2016-10-18 19:38

2 Name: Taser 2016-10-19 1:44

3 Name: Anonymous 2016-10-19 5:55

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11 Name: Anonymous 2016-10-20 9:13