On 9/1/2015 6:54 AM, rbowman wrote:
On 08/31/2015 08:32 PM, Don Y wrote:
On 8/31/2015 6:51 PM, rbowman wrote:
Just a normal day at work.... For real fun, try Lisp.

ROTFL! Lots of Irritating, Superfluous Parentheses!

One of the programmers at work died and his widow sold off his books. I bought
'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' among others and worked my
way through it one winter. While I didn't have a problem grasping the concepts
of Scheme my mind kept asking why anyone would do something in such an
ass-backwards way. Coming from someone who once was fairly proficient at FORTH,
that's something.

It's a different programming paradigm. Everything is a *list*.
car/cdr (and variants) let you select portions of a given list;
cons lets you modify/make new lists.

It's a delightfully expressive way of doing things. But, incredibly
inefficient because lists aren't forced to be well-behaved -- like
arrays, etc.