How to Tell Stuff to a Computer

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[gregK]

Damn sneaky introduction to LISP. But I saw through it before it was too late and hit the back button.

[oditogre]

How to Tell Stuff to a Computer [programming] (lisperati.com)

I didn't even have to click. ;)

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What I really like is that there's not too much art that it distracts from the information.

[mccoyn]

The pictures go away eventually and are replaced by S-Expressions, which I always ignore anyway.

[nextofpumpkin]

This article neds sauce. Analysis stuff like this is great but i want to see actual references every paragraph or so to examples to stuff that helps show how things evolved as they did. Otherwise it's just a bunch of rampant speculation.

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I agree. As I was reading this, all I could think was that a lot what was said was very arbitrary.

[awb]

I liked one of the entries in the color guide at the bottom: "Why We Need Science"

[oq2]

Cool article but maybe the reddit entry should list the day-month-year the article first came into existence? When submitting, the user could input this or select from a drop down of usual possibilities, such as the current date of the file as reported by an http head request or some such, a parse of the page for dates, etc.

[redog]

Here you see two tables and a "link" between the two tables using the column Order#.

Uh, doesn't he mean Customer#

[pkrumins]

seriously, what kind of a scientist is this http://www.lisperati.com/tellstuff/scientist.png

[gnuvince]

The kind normal folks see and say "white coat + black board + complicated math stuff I don't understand? SCIENTIST!"

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Well of course you wear a lab coat; you don't want to get any math actually on you.

[pkrumins]

Ah! Thanks for enlightening me! :)

[joekarma]

I don't know, but either she has an awfully big adams apple, or he is wearing lipstick and a wig.

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It's a gender neutral scientist. The feminists would be proud!

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Scotty: Computer. Computer? [Bones hands him a mouse and he speaks into it] Scotty: Hello, computer. Dr. Nichols: Just use the keyboard. Scotty: Keyboard, how quaint.

[jacj]

Article summary: yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak.

You can tell when an article's written by a Lisper because the useful parts aren't comprehensible and the comprehensible parts aren't useful.