In article <roy-788377.21035502082...@news.panix.com>, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >In article <i37ire$7g...@panix5.panix.com>, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) >wrote: >> >> http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/98/May/stroustrup.html > >The same story has been floating around for eons, just with the names >changed. I saw one where Wirth was ostensibly making fun of the people >who didn't understand that Pascal was all just a joke. > >I'm sure if you go back far enough, you can find a McCarthy / Lisp >version. It probably goes something like, "So, anyway, we tried to >figure out what was the most absurd way to abuse punctuation we could >imagine. Somebody suggested that every program would have to end with >37 close parentheses. When we finally stopped laughing, we started >sketching out a grammar on the chalkboard that would let us do that".
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/90q2/lispcode.html -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ (You knew I was going to post that, right?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
