Introducing the 'Common Lisp Objection System'

Start by using miscategorisation as an objection strategy:

"Lisp is only for AI."

Quickly move on to Common Syntactical Objections:

"Lisp is ugly, Betty! Those terrible braces!"

Try the Turing-tarpit objection:

"I can do everything I need without using lisp."

Try the market-forces objection:

"If lisp is great, then everyone would already be using it."

If all else fails: try an ad hominem attack:

"Lisp is only for smug lisp weenies."

Finally... give in...

embrace the lambda.

'mabster' on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:49:39 GMT, sez:

This reminds me of this little gag (although the HTML formatting ruins it a little bit compared to the original Usenet post):

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/90q2/lispcode.html

'lb' on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:53:09 GMT, sez:

thanks mabster! -- i was trying to find that joke recently.

'p' on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:02:13 GMT, sez:

If only more people would write [language] code instead of talking about how cool it is to write code in [language].

'Geoff' on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:24:19 GMT, sez:

(begin define-macro (lang x) (print `would `write `code `in x))
(print If only more people (lang `lisp) instead of talking about how cool it is to (lang `lisp))

Is that better p?

'Waterbreath' on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:50:09 GMT, sez:

Geoff, I think your "would" should not be inside the macro.

'Victor Rodriguez' on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:19:16 GMT, sez:

Thank you, this is very funny *and* truthful.

Regards.

'lb' on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:57:29 GMT, sez:

@geoff and waterbreath
yeh, in future geoff, i think you ought to test your lisp snippets before posting them here. That's very shoddy work. You bring shame upon the entire blogging community.

'Skronk' on Sun, 13 May 2007 03:56:06 GMT, sez:

There's a new dialect of lisp called Marine. here's an example

sir begin sir print "ATTEN" sir_yes_sir
sir println "-HUH" sir_yes_sir sir_yes_sir

'lb' on Sun, 13 May 2007 08:21:01 GMT, sez:

@skronk
i gather that SIR is an open bracket and sir_yes_sir a close bracket. ;-)

'Skronk' on Mon, 14 May 2007 19:15:59 GMT, sez:

How about Beavis, a new version of Scheme

heh_heh print heh_heh "HEY BUTTHEAD, HE SAID MONAD" heh_heh
heh_heh println heh_heh "GETTIT, MO-NAD, HE WANTS MO NADS" heh_heh heh_heh

'Zog' on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:57:40 GMT, sez:

Don't Call me a Lisp weenie and I won't call you a Blub monkey.

'nat' on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:43:02 GMT, sez:

Whats wrong with being a coder monkey?

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