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Lisp? (Score:4, Funny)

by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2003.11.19 10:33 (#25895) Homepage Journal

A compiler to Lisp? :-)
-Dom

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- Re:Lisp? (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by nicholas (3034) <nwc10+useperl@colon.colondot.net> on 2003.11.19 10:52 (#25897) Homepage Journal
  
  Eh? I think you used the wrong 4 letter word there. Like parrot, I'm currently assuming that a copy of perl5 exists for the bootstrapping process:
  
  perl -MFile::Find -e 'find (sub {my $old = $_; return unless s/ruby/perl6/g; rename $old, $_ or warn "$old: $!"}, @ARGV)'
  
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I'm reminded of Fermat... (Score:1)

by hex (3272)

...and when he wrote in the margin of his copy of the Arithmetica by Diophantus "For this, I have found a truly wonderful proof, but the margin is too small to contain it."
- Re:I'm reminded of Fermat... (Score:2)
  
  by babbage (2619)
  
  Yes, I'm pretty sure that's what the joke here is... :-)
  
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  -- DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL.
  - Re:I'm reminded of Fermat... (Score:1)
    
    by hex (3272)
    
    This is the sound of an obvious joke flying past someone: ZOOOOOSH!
    D'oh.

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