On Tue, November 7, 2006 3:28 pm, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:36:02PM -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: >> On Nov 7, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote: >> > > >> Sorry to be pedantic, but we don't call it LISP anymore. It was only >> ever called LISP because there weren't any lowercase characters on >> terminals when it was invented! It's not a proper acronym, so LISP > > OK, then it's an improper acronym: Lots of Insane Silly Parentheses. >
Heh. Version I'd heard was Lots of Inconsequential Superfluous Parentheses. :) (Note: I have played around with Lisp, and in no way do I mean to disparage it. It is a very powerful language. It's also fun to make fun of. That's a win-win situation!) -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting LAMP Specialist /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
