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   Kat (kats@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 21:19:01 JST Kat

   • asm & tamsyn & forth, oh my!
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   @millihertz @SEGFAULT I feel that: Perl is the reason I discovered Common Lisp.

   Seriously, I got so fed up with Perl's ugliness that I googled "elegant programming language."
   That took me on a detour through Scheme, which I'll concede fits the criteria, but that turned out to be the necessary (at the time) stepping-stone.

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     Daniel Barlow (dan@brvt.telent.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 00:23:23 JST Daniel Barlow

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     • asm & tamsyn & forth, oh my!
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     @KatS @millihertz @SEGFAULT haha, same. "A combination of factors around the time I was at university [... ] Perl - specifically my horror to learn that it flattens (1,2,3,(4,5,6)) to (1,2,3,4,5,6) - yes, I know about references, but I think it's a bug not a feature that the sensible syntax is reserved for the silly behaviour"
     
     (From http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2012/10/lisp-hackers-daniel-barlow.html?m=1 )
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