{"id":7617,"date":"2024-04-05T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:13:16","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-day-ninety-six-eq-miss-p-lisp-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/05\/twenty-twenty-four-day-ninety-six-eq-miss-p-lisp-t\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four day ninety-six]: (eq (miss-p &#8216;lisp) t)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-3.49.15\u202fPM-600x125.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7618\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-3.49.15\u202fPM-600x125.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-3.49.15\u202fPM-300x63.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-3.49.15\u202fPM-640x134.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-3.49.15\u202fPM.png 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, Lisp was by no means a perfect language, but there are times where I miss the simplicity and power of the S-expression format (Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses) which made everything easy to construct and parse (as long as you didn&#8217;t have to do anything funny with special characters).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each language has its own foibles &#8211; I&#8217;m working heavily in C++ again and, hey, buddy, does it have foibles &#8211; but I always thought Lisp got a bad rap just for its format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: a Lisp function definition (with the -p suffix to indicate it is a predicate) with the side effect of printing some nostalgia, and executing that statement at the Steel Bank Common Lisp command line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, Lisp was by no means a perfect language, but there are times where I miss the simplicity and power of the S-expression format (Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,281],"tags":[274,57],"class_list":["post-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-development","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-computational-archaeology","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}