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Hello fellow /prog\rammers? How's your purely functional day going? Free of side effects I hope?

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. The language is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of lambda calculus most of the compositional abstractions will go over a typical imperative programmers's head. There are many illustrative examples of functional programming, which are deftly woven into each charter - SICP philosophy draws heavily from 1970's MIT academia and early hacker culture, for instance. The true wizards understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of metacircular evaluation and higher-order functions, to realize that its not just clever - it proves something deep about computing. As a consequence people who dislike SICP truly ARE idiots - of course they wouldn't even appreciate, for instance, the insight in Sussman's monumental quote "We conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells" which itself is a cryptic reference to Church–Turing thesis. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated C-impletons scratching their heads in confusion as Sussman's genius unfolds itself on their PC screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a SICP snake tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

C-impletons

nice try and emulating mental midget-kun but he hates lisp too

>>3
This may surprise you, but there are multiple mental midget-kuns.

>>3
That post was satire about ivory tower intellectual's imagined superiority of functional programming. LISP isn't perfect, at all its years of existence the expressive power,reader macros and metacircular evaluation didn't amount to footnotes in computer science.
Its ridiculously flexible and adaptive(DSLs, syntax macros) but all the abstractions have costs.
Contrasting it with C preprocessor which barely handles simple token pasting and argument expansion but resulted in thousands of software elements used daily by major software projects(because C is much better optimized) as poor man's Lisp.
Lisp power is not unique phenomenon of computer history, not an ancient fountain of knowledge(that supposedly source of most abstractions used by current languages) but a curious exploration of low-level syntax abstraction: Lisp is actually a primitive, extremely simple system that depends on functional composition and macros to achieve the end goals of computing - it doesn't give you power but tools to get that power, which is replicated in different ways with other paradigms: functional composition has its own limitations and deficiencies, even disregarding performance losses - it strays deep into Lego-block computing, using functions to quickly compose a monstrosity of recursive structures that have to be evaluated and debugged as a whole unit - a design that is similar to deeply nested object/class hierarchies without any type systems(does this remind you of anything?).

>>4
not true, there are only 3 people on /prog/

>>6
All three of which are mental midgs.

>>5

functional composition […] strays deep into Lego-block computing, using functions to quickly compose a monstrosity of recursive structures that have to be evaluated and debugged as a whole unit

hahaha,

lol

???

>>5
you didn't read SICP I see. you're supposed to compose from independent parts, which can easily and obviously be debugged on their own

>>7
I might be a mental midget and you definitely are one but I'd argue that The Sussman is quite inteliigent

your're are all mental midgets because you don't have dubs

>>11
you got me

>>10
He is senile and demented old man.