Extra Ordinary Comics

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

But theriouthly, I love your work. :)

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

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

Forget LISP.

Try PERL.

:D

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

:)

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

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!

Python is okay c:
bUT LISP
ಠ_ಠ

Python ^_^

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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*

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

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 :).

Picnics are nice.

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)

Jordan's awesome!

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

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

I never asked for this

wait, do you actually hate Lisp?
Is that like a permanent thing?
if so:
:(


)
Lisp has some nice things about it!

I know Scheme, & that's bad enough!

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

I love you!

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...

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.

:)

Installation wizard?

No, Esperanto is the way to go!

What's lisp?
By the way shoelace is so kawaii. :P
(obsessed with cats) 8D

LISP is awesome, but is just a bit misunderstood, hehe

Greetings

(LISP(is(terrible())so(many)parentheses))

That class, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, has to be, hands down, the best CS class, period. End. Of. Story. In one semester you cover different programming paradigms: functional, declarative, algorithmic. You learn data abstraction, computational complexity. You learn object oriented, dispatched, and type-based data systems. You write an interpreter (to explore different language trade offs like different scoping mechanisms, lazy evaluation), you write a hardware emulator (thus learning some about the structure of the CPU/hardware), and then you write a *compiler* to compile the interpreted language you wrote to be evaluated on the hardware emulator you wrote.

You basically touch *every* subject in CS (except perhaps AI) in ONE semester. No other course can compare.

You don't have to like Lisp, just pointing out how incredibly amazing the class is - and truth be known, you cannot teach it using a language other than lisp (in one semester).

I might have to go back and read that book again.