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   crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 01:35:23 JST crows call me breadlady

   learning clojure before scheme has given me such a bizarre set of politics about lisp. “first” > “car” come and get me

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 01:35:23 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @garbados imo pervasive destructuring makes it almost a non-issue; it's relatively rare to need to call `first` or `rest` when you can bind against `[head & tail]`

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     crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 01:39:23 JST crows call me breadlady

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     • tech? no! man, see...

     @technomancy true facts. i found this type of destructuring in scheme to be really verbose, but like, the whole language is verbose, so…

     band repeated this.
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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 01:39:23 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @garbados

     LISPERS: lisp is amazing; it lets you create any kind of abstraction you want!

     ALSO LISPERS: let's name our fundamental functions after specific registers we used to use on the IBM 704