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Li

12 Sep

A few months ago I was sick with a stomach bug so Jordan decided to keep me company. I slept for most of the day, but I would wake up every couple of hours in a hazy stupor, and every time, Jordan was watching a series of lectures called Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It drove me INSANE. Everything about it is maddeningly 80's and one of the guys had weird speech quirks and then there's weird music and somehow some kind of wizard. It would be the first thing I heard when I woke up and the last thing I heard when I fell back to sleep, permeating my brain insidiously as I suffered without escape. And that is why I now hate Lisp.
Dan

12 Sep

Non-programmer that I am, I just thought your response should be "I already lithp, don't draw attenthion to it". :)
Dan

12 Sep

But theriouthly, I love your work. :)
Hiro

12 Sep

Hahaha.. I hope I don't do that to my girlfriend. xD
phryk

12 Sep

Don't hate on lisp :( Parens are part of a healthy breakfast!
Federico

12 Sep

Forget LISP. Try PERL. :D
Cr30s

12 Sep

LISP, both exciting and indigestible at the same time. I still have nightmares :( :)
Franky

12 Sep

ah, good old LISP ... lucky I never had to learn that particular beast but could stick with C ;)
melladh

12 Sep

As much as I approve of Jordan's response in the comment, I hear you about the gnawing of entertainment-for-those-keeping-you-company-while-sick! The worst of all is listening to really loud computer whirr or dungeon crawler sounds all day though, while your brain is already in a very frail state. BOOM-KRASCH-BAM-BOOM-KRASCH-BAM-BOOM-KRASCH-BAM... argh make it stop!
Kaze

12 Sep

Python is okay c: bUT LISP ಠ_ಠ
Fernando

12 Sep

Python ^_^
Antcoolio

12 Sep

It's commong knowledge amongst computer scientists that growing a beard is a prerequisit for loving Lisp. It somehow has to do with all the parentheses.
Delakando

12 Sep

Feels like smacking the guy upside the head.. with a boot.
Audrey

12 Sep

It's your explanation that absolutely MAKES this comic!!! I love the comic on its own, even though it made no sense to me as a complete non-programmer. Then I shed a tear for you over your sad story!
smile

12 Sep

That's classic, I like those series, they are awesome!
smile

12 Sep

Btw, original course with cool wizard image: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
soot

13 Sep

You make your bottle disappear, so you must be some kind of wizard too!
Eric H.

13 Sep

Of the two, I think growing the biggest orange would be more useful.
Ariel

13 Sep

I don't understand what the big issue is with Python. Honestly this is maybe the second time I've ever heard of Lisp? Then again, I've been staying away from Python.
Introbulus

13 Sep

If you grew the biggest orange, would there be enough color left for the sun?
Zazu Yen

13 Sep

Being sick as a kid in my house meant getting to sleep on the foldout couch in the living room so you could watch TV (this was back when TVs were the size and weight of todays economy cars). I once had the stomach flue, drifting in and out of a fever haze, while the rest of the family watch an old horror film with a giant squid attacking a city. So now some 30 years later illness is still inexplicably tied, in my mind, to images of giant squid attacks.
Zazu Yen

13 Sep

Oh, and as a programmer of many years, I'd much rather have giant orange than need to program in LISP. However learning LISP can help budding programmers understand programing structures and logic patterns. Much like Pascal, LISP is a useful language for learning but not so much for using.
sarah penguin

13 Sep

Wow, I was a programmer at one time by trade & training - C++ directx 2d graphics/game design and I never managed to learn Lisp. One of these days though I'll find a time when my head isn't goo and I'll learn! *hugs* Sowwy bouts your lisp nightmares. Here have a compensatory bonus hug! *hug*
Mike

13 Sep

I agree with Frederico, Perl is way better! See: http://corydoncafe.com/2009/pearl-necklace.php
Zazu Yen

13 Sep

Honestly I didn't learn anything about LISP until just several years ago (learned assembly, Pascal and then C all those years ago) but I can see how it could be informative. You want to try something that will bend your brain and challenge how you think about programming try Erlang :).
Nicholas

13 Sep

Picnics are nice.
Joe

13 Sep

As I'm sure has been said already, learning Lisp is a good idea if you want to be a serious programmer (functional paradigm blah blah etc)
Nahue

13 Sep

Jordan's awesome!
Evan

13 Sep

You could be Li and the Giant Orange, and have grand adventures with all your arthropod friends! And Shoelace, of course.
ConsciousCode

13 Sep

I love Python so much. C++ and Java are neat, but Python has so much syntactic sugar it's ridiculous <3 Lisp is cool too, but I just know the basic syntax :x
acce245

13 Sep

I never asked for this
madaco

13 Sep

wait, do you actually hate Lisp? Is that like a permanent thing? if so: :( ) Lisp has some nice things about it!
Dehrk

13 Sep

I know Scheme, & that's bad enough!
Joshua

13 Sep

Jordan!! you ruined her appetite! :( Its okay Li, we'll get Shoelace to cheer you up
Harley

13 Sep

I love you!
Makoto

14 Sep

If you've ever seen Prolog or J before, you'd be crying for LISP before the end of the semester. If you don't know, I don't advise you go looking lest you hurt your head...
Mohan

14 Sep

LOL LISP, I remember learning that in two of my classes. It's not too bad, but wouldn't want to program in it for a living.
Alub Sulp

14 Sep

:)