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• (((earthquake!)))
  Holy shit. That was the longest tremor I've ever experienced.Read more...Tags : life, lisp
• What if Lisp was invented by the Japanese?
  It's fun to speculate the cultural influence on a programming language design. One of the notable characteristics of Japanese language is that a verb always comes at the end of a sentence.Read more...Tags : culture, lisp
• Secret Alien Technology FTW!
  Okay, I want to start off this blog with my personal must-read list for young hackers. Because, you know, you can tell everything about a person when you see his/her bookshelf, right?Read more...Tags : book, life

• Re: What if Lisp was invented by the Japanese?
  So we have assembly in Verb-Subject-Object pattern isn't it? I personally only fluent in languages that are Subject-Verb-Object (well, Chinese and English) and also know some Japanese (which is argueablly, not all the time Subject-Object-Verb) and found ...
• Re: What if Lisp was invented by the Japanese?
  From a programming perspective this is just switching to postfix. Postfix is brilliant at cleanly expressing an algorithin and is very easy to parse and process. It also removes any requirment for parentheses. (((4 5 +) 3 *) print) becomes: 45+ 3* print ...
• Re: What if Lisp was invented by the Japanese?
  In RPN, you can omit the parens even with optional arguments; all that needs to happen is that the procedures consume and produce the appropriate number of symbols from the stack. Parens merely help enable code validation; they're not required for your ...

Blogs
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Acheron Lisp - A Lisp for the Web
Lisp-no-yama - programming as self-expression
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Explorations
in LISP - A visit to the dark side of the moon...
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Spitzmeister - surrounded by idiots
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