[Chicago] LISP was Factoring fun with functions in Python

[Frank Duncan]

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_AllSym.htm

Most of the symbols seem self explanatory to me...?


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Tal Liron <tal.liron at threecrickets.com>wrote:

>  Heh, also great for neurotics, when you need to punch in 20
> close-parentheses signs in succession... )))))))))))))))))))))
>
>
> On 11/13/2012 02:48 PM, Randall Baxley wrote:
>
>   LISP like APL was born in a time of doing things with four byte words
> and many learned machine languages or assembly before a higher level
> language which builds a sort of language all of it's own and English words
> get shortened to three or four letter replacements.  Major dmag to spln as
> well.  Great for slow fingers though.
>
> --- On *Tue, 11/13/12, Tal Liron <tal.liron at threecrickets.com><tal.liron at threecrickets.com>
> * wrote:
>
> 3) This cuts a bite close to home: part of what I hate, hate, hate about
> the Lisp world (which I otherwise love) is its fetishization of
> succinctness. Functions have the weirdest, shortest names that tell you
> basically nothing about what they do. You just, like, gotta be in the know,
> you know? People in that world love to have philosophical discussions about
> how succinctness == clarity, but some of us like to get work done in the
> real world, don't we.
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