God wrote in LISP?

[mdlbear]

If you're a programmer, you really have to see today's xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe



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Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

ROFL. I always suspected.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

It is, after all, the glue of the Internet....

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Or, as my friend Garrett (sarekofvulcan) put it, "The Swiss-Army chainsaw of programming languages."

[mdlbear]

I've always loved that description -- it's fairly widespread.

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

So much for Kanef. But don't tell the poor baby.

[mneme]

LOL. Beautiful. Because God (or the Gods) had a deadline, so while it said Lisp on the spec sheet, they ended up hacking it together out of perl to save time. :)

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

I'll believe that the gods did people in Perl, at least. It would explain why dealing with them is often like decoding a regular expression that was created from a burst of line noise.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*ROFLMAO* Can I quote you on that?

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure...glad you like it!

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me of another item in my quotes file:

"sendmail.cf does not resemble line noise. It resembles the result of somebody banging his head on the keyboard. Anybody who has worked with it will understand why."
--Seth Breidbart

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*LOL* I've got one word for the poor schmucks with dents in their foreheads....

"Postfix."

Having worked with Sendmail back in the bad old days, I quickly figured out that the best way to get a good working Sendmail was to rip off somebody else's configuration that worked more or less like you wanted it to, and change the names to protect the guilty. Anything else... dents in forehead...

[callibr8]

You're GEEKS! Every last one of you. Heh.

[mdlbear]

Guilty as charged.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

And this is bad how?

And I might also add, takes one to know one... :)

[mdlbear]

*snerk*