Re: Visual Studio code convert to **free

On 3/24/24 9:07 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Ah, LISP!// If you programmed MIDI devices in the 80s, LISP was what you used.  So... many... parentheses!

Yes. "Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses." And note that LISP, like APL, Forth, and Smalltalk, is a "workspace-oriented" language.

There's one particularly memorable s-expression from the "Blocks World" exercise in the textbook we used:

(CLUTTER CLUTTER (CDR CLUTTER))

(this, as I recall, removed any obstacles that might be blocking a requested move.)

Another thing that I noticed on my own (and most others evidently didn't) that a "list" was either the reserved atom NIL, or a dotted-pair in which the CDR was a simpler list.
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JHHL