7 Jan
2014
7 Jan
'14
5:13 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 10:50:59PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
[...]
But then again, it does fit perfectly with the smug,
condescending,
patronizing tone of many other RPN users I've met online. They are not
pleasant people, in my general experience. Of course, there are exceptions,
but Ken here is not one.
It's the same kind of superior smugness you get from Lisp zealots, who also use
ten-dollar words like "homoiconcity" and claim that it's the only tool that
can
bring us artificial intelligence, despite the fact that it has yet to actually
produce any AI of note despite having been around for 56 years. It does however
make sense once you realise that Lisp source code is also Polish Notation.
Incidentally, "homoiconicity" just means that they wrote the language back-end
and then knocked off without bothering with the front-end, so you have to enter
your program as a raw AST instead. The apologists claim that the lack of a
front-end is a feature because it makes macros easier to write. That real
programs use macros rarely or not at all, but do contain a lot of arithmetic
that would benefit from being presented in a more conventional form, has
apparently passed them by.