1
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?
2
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.
3
Name:
Anonymous
2016-10-19 5:55
>>1 Any sufficiently complicated macro can be rewritten as bloated and inefficient functions.
4
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.
5
Name:
Anonymous
2016-10-19 18:05
>>4 Lisp isn't the only language that uses macros.
7
Name:
Anonymous 2016-10-19 21:33
sussman's 7th principle of turing completeness GET
8
Name:
Anonymous
2016-10-20 3:55
9
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.
10
Name:
Anonymous
2016-10-20 6:56
>>9 Aliens As A Service: Enterprise Edition
11
Name:
Anonymous 2016-10-20 9:13
>>8 If I was you, I would at least try to hide my foolishness.