Tag Archives: lisp

The Butterfly Effect

Possibly one of the best funny XKCDs ever.

Keeping my brain diverted

I do strange things sometimes to keep my brain from turning into mush when I have to concentrate a lot on something.
Cut and paste this into Emacs (21.3 or later) and evaluate it to see what I mean. This is something to answer the question, “What comes next in the series 1, 11, 21, [...]

The noonday sun (of text editors)

From In the Beginning was the Command Line, but I found it via Tim Bray:
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it [...]

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