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Re: Resources to learn common lisp?

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It is 2042.  A dry wind blows over a desolate landscape, raising flurries
of dust from the burnt ground.  Feral dogs, tumours proliferating on their
skin, pick through the debris, raking through yellow bones in the hope of
rats.  In the distance the remains of a city, a city whose name will soon
be remembered by nobody.  Some of the buildings appear curiously melted.

A structure made of corrugated iron, rusting, deformed panels torn from
some vehicle, and papier mâché.  A turbine atop a tower made partly of
garden furniture, creaking in the wind.  A collection of car batteries.

In the shed a thin figure crouches: ragged clothes and open sores.  He
types at a keyboard, poking a stick into the switches of the missing keys. 
The screen is cracked and dim.

The camera's eye moves, we can see, barely, the text on the screen.

> PYTHON IS THE ONLY TRUE SOLUTION PYTHON HAS BEEN THE BEST THE ONLY
> LANGUAGE FOR CENTURIES REFERENCE COUNTING WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
> BODILY FLUIDS GARBAGE COLLECTION IS THE WORK OF SATAN PYTHON IS THE
> STANDARD REFERENCE COUNTING MAKES THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN
> GARBAGE COLLECTORS ARE CONTINUALLY TRAWLING THROUGH DEAD DATA LISP IS
> OBSOLETE EVIL NOBODY USES LISP USE PYTHON LIKE ME USE PYTHON REFERENCE
> PYTHON LISP SLOW FAST PYTHON BEST YES PYTHON GARBAGE BAD PYTHON OBSOLETE

Flecks of foam and blood land on the keyboard.  No birds sing; what once
was grass is now dust and ash.

Still he types, faster and faster now, singing and chanting.

From the computer in the shack a cable runs.  The camera follows it, to its
end: copper cores poking through charred insulation.

Fade.

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tfeb.org/computer/

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Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-31 22:46 +0000
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <tfb@work.it.out> - 2026-08-01 09:08 +0000
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-08-01 07:49 -0400
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-01 23:37 +0000
        Re: Resources to learn common lisp? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-08-01 16:54 -0700
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <tfb@work.it.out> - 2026-08-02 07:39 +0000
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <Sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-08-04 22:39 -0400

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