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− | But, despite its age, Lisp is also a high-level language and lispers probably spend more of their time dealing with higher-level abstractions than perlists. | + | But, despite it's age, Lisp is also a high-level language and lispers probably spend more of their time dealing with higher-level abstractions than perlists. |
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| What's causing the narrator's marvel in the comic is that Lisp has a very elegant (almost non-existent) syntax and the language has a very close relationship with the underlying syntactical structure of the program, and that thinking about it does tend to give suitably-minded hackers feelings of awe and reverence, once they grok it. Even Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, will readily concede that Lisp is beautiful. | | What's causing the narrator's marvel in the comic is that Lisp has a very elegant (almost non-existent) syntax and the language has a very close relationship with the underlying syntactical structure of the program, and that thinking about it does tend to give suitably-minded hackers feelings of awe and reverence, once they grok it. Even Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, will readily concede that Lisp is beautiful. |
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| The worst programming language ever has to be Kodu game lab. Or possibly Malbodge. {{unsigned ip|141.101.98.244}} | | The worst programming language ever has to be Kodu game lab. Or possibly Malbodge. {{unsigned ip|141.101.98.244}} |
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− | Perl is the language designed for the convenience of use. It mimics the natural language in the sense that it has great many slightly different features but each feature makes the most sense for its intended use and allows to write the easily understandable programs. An example of opposite is Pascal, which is a tiny language (i.e. "elegant" in the terms of its creator) but you can't do may things with it at all, and for what you can do, you have to turn yourself inside out. Lisp started in 1950s kind of like Pascal but then collected great many different features over time, each one to fix some of its inborn limitations. You still have to turn yourself inside out when you write in Lisp but nowadays there are great many ways to do so. If you wonder, Pascal had been extended as well, and Delphi is an example of an overgrown Pascal. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.5|108.162.246.5]] 21:56, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
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− | About the 2001 quote... I have the October 1968 Arrow paperback edition (09 001530 4) by A.C.Clarke and on page 221 Dave Bowman remarks "The thing's hollow - it goes on for ever - and - oh my God - it's full of stars!". So yes, in the movie this line was never used but in Clarke's novelization of his and Kubrick's screenplay it's there. Fast forward to 1984 with the release of 2010 and the filmmakers decided to put this soundbite in the intro to good effect. So yes it was never in the 2001 movie and was in the 2010 movie but as aforementioned, it was in the 2001 book. [[User:Squirreltape|Squirreltape]] ([[User talk:Squirreltape|talk]]) 20:18, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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− | I believe that the "ostensibly, yes" refers to Greenspun's tenth rule so I added this to the explanation. A complete set of rules for the universe is complex enough for the rule to apply. [[User:Meneldal|Meneldal]] ([[User talk:Meneldal|talk]]) 04:52, 11 March 2015 (UTC)meneldal
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− | Remeber, one day we must all go through those Perly gates. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.254|173.245.54.254]] 16:25, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
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− | On the subject of the Universe's implementation language: http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/EternalFlame.html [[User:Chrullrich|Chrullrich]] ([[User talk:Chrullrich|talk]]) 15:30, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
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− | Does anyone think this could be related? https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/emacsomancer/m/my-god-it-s-full-of-car-s-png/ [[Special:Contributions/172.69.42.45|172.69.42.45]] 02:34, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
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