Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Snidely Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:56:49 -0700 Organization: Dis One Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <10ojmjv$2ashr$1@dont-email.me> <10q03vf$1o2ev$1@dont-email.me> <10q0c18$1qua9$1@dont-email.me> <10q0f40$1s10c$1@dont-email.me> <10q1etr$9gh8$1@artemis.inf.ed.ac.uk> <10q2o3v$nqm7$1@news1.tnib.de> <10q3kgr$2val0$1@dont-email.me> <1774547182-12588@newsgrouper.org> <87a4vuw71u.fsf@parhasard.net> Reply-To: snidely.too@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:56:57 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="779053faabd88b33302d15fae4f24719"; logging-data="3738747"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18YH8GuBLb+bemOoBbJxRhCDL524+SxTzY=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:xrLTPaS8k2dAlvSfzbUf7jVkuak= X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb X-ICQ: 543516788 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84163 alt.usage.english:1141072 Thursday, rbowman murmurred ... > On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:38:05 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote: > >> If the Common Lisp ecosystem met my needs I would use SBCL for almost >> everything, but I’m stuck with C and Emacs Lisp and nudging everything >> in the latter more to Common Lisp. > > My only exposure to a Lisp adjacent language was Scheme and that was when > I worked my way through 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer > Programs' one winter. The concepts were interesting but my impression was > 'Why in the name for the Flying Spaghetti Monster would anyone ever do it > that way?' Dunno about Scheme, but the motivation for LISP was to process lists. Perhaps as a part of early Natural Language analysis. /dps -- Killing a mouse was hardly a Nobel Prize-worthy exercise, and Lawrence went apopleptic when he learned a lousy rodent had peed away all his precious heavy water. _The Disappearing Spoon_, Sam Kean