Small Open Source projects attn: Gordon Marx

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Sat Mar 19 08:50:09 EST 2005


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> On Friday 18 March 2005 1:29 pm, John Chambers wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm ...  maybe we should take a closer look.  Did the function names
> > come before or after the args? If the latter, then it wasn't Lisp, it
> > was Forth.  And that oughta be good for another joke or two ...
> Forth does not have function names, it has words. Lisp is an older language 
> that actually predates computers. 
> Note that the Jewish Torah (5 books of Moses) is written in Hebrew with no 
> vowels. The same is true for Lisp. The parens were added by humans to make 

Nope.  Aramaic.  hebrew didn't exist yet.

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