17 Jun 2002 cmiller   » (Master)

Quoth tk, Even if Graham wants to sell Lisp, he should at least try to sell it more properly. I say that Java, Perl, Python are progressively more like... Basic.

If you're looking only at how the code looks, ignoring its meaning, then you may be right. From the point of view of someone who cares only about how the language works, ignoring how the code looks, then it's definitely tending toward Lispity... eh, Lispness? Lispfullness?

Ah, I guess if I concretize what I'm trying to say by "Lispness", I center on the word Lambda. BASIC is about as far from having the lambda nature as one can get. (I'm not sure about tail recursion as a "Lispness" necessity.)

I think Graham is saying that because he does care about how those things work; he's viewing the code from less than 3 meters away.

employment

I'm close to accepting a job at my previous employer. It's an okay company, with decent pay and excellent health insurance (about which I can vouch personally). I'd be programming, but not on pretty stuff. Ah well, it's comforting that they want me back. :)

vacation

Mary Ellen and I spent all last week at a beach near Charleston, SC. For the first time, I didn't get a "programmer's tan" -- id est, second-degree burns from Sol's radiation. Some SPF-Bignum sun-block did me well, and I escaped the week with slight sun damage, a bunch of photos, a sweet box-kite, and happy thoughts about the climate of the Carolinas. The weather was considerably cooler than Valdosta, GA, where we currently live. Perhaps it'd be nice to live there.

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