secretGeek reveals The Truth About Lisp:
Learning lisp will alter your life.
Your brain will grow bigger than you ever thought possible.
You will rewrite all of your applications in just a handful of lines
Society will shun you. You will shun society.
You will become disatisfied with everything and everyone around you.
Lisp is so simple to learn that you can learn lisp in just a few minutes. I just learnt it now while I was waiting for a bus.
Hilarious. I actually really love Scheme, a Lisp variant, and think that in some ways it can help you to understand some concepts (at least — I feel like it helped me. I think. Where’s the kool aid, again?).
That being said, The Truth About Lisp is a bang on parody about some of the more outlandish zealotry that seems to follow Lisp around. My favorite line is:
Paul Graham himself was completely written in lisp, by an earlier version of himself, also written in lisp, by an earlier version of lisp.
Priceless.
Hey Phil…I thought you would be glad to know that I have joined the ranks of the WordPress elite…that’s right, I am now using WordPress on my personal blog (instead of Community Server).I just thought I’d drop you a note and let you know, you Linux evangelist, you :)(Linux & php are becoming more appealing to me every day).
Hey, cool. Wordpress is a great product; it’s so well done that in many ways it almost doesn’t matter what language it’s programmed in, except for the fact that the relative ubiquity of PHP makes it pretty easy to install almost anywhere.
If you start using Linux, let me know. Ubuntu 7.04 comes out in a couple days, I think; that wouldn’t be a bad distribution to start with. ;-)
Have fun!
Not to comment SPAM you here Phil, but I don’t know your email…the link you have to my site–http://bisnut.com/default.aspx–no longer works. You can just set it to http://www.bisnut.com. Thanks! :)
No worries; I fixed my link to your site.
My email is on the “About” page… ;)