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• Lee's other problem (Score:2)

  by drhyde (1683) on 2005.01.18 5:38 (#37596) Homepage Journal

  Never mind his shocking perl, what about his butchering of perhaps the most well known poetic form in the English language?

  I refer, of course, to the Limerick. On his web site he has this:

  I know a monger named Wall
  who always peddles his Perl
  if he had any grasp
  he would just LISP
  Wall's nothing but a troll
    --Xah Lee, 2000-02

  There's lots of problems here. First of all, Wall, Perl and troll don't rhyme. Nor do grap and LISP. And then there's the metre - there's one missing syllable in the first line, one in the second, one in the fourth, and one or two in the fifth.

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  • Re:Lee's other problem (Score:2)

    by ziggy (25)

    There's a more serious problem.

    Years ago, at dinner with a bunch of mongers, the subject turned to Lisp. Larry said something like (I paraphrase):

    Common Lisp is a great language. Except for the lack of syntax.

    So much for Larry just using Lisp if only he were smart enough. ;-)