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Thanks Again, McCarthy

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I’m up at night watching Ice Age 2: The Meltdown and in the special features, there are set of fake 50s style documentaries on the different animals in the movie. The first one is called:

Sloths: Natures Loveable Lisper

Thanks to a wonderful naming idea from 50 years ago, we have a mascot:

sid

I don’t know about you, but I’m just a little less proud than I was 5 minutes ago. How about this?

sid mccarthy

There, I feel a little bit better. A note to all aspiring computational revolutionaries: ask a normal person what your great language name makes them think of. You might be surprised what you find out.

Of course, I think this lesson has been well learned because all of the new languages have cool names. Thankfully, this is one way that new languages are not becoming more like Lisp!

Written by Peter

January 21st, 2008 at 1:53 am

Posted in Fun,Lisp

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  1. [...] Fortunately, the gulf between programming languages isn’t as great as it was in 1992 when PAIP was published.  While languages like C and C++ are hard to beat for performance and OS interaction, newer languages like Python and Ruby (and even Java/C# with garbage collection) deal more with computation than direct hardware manipulation.  Fortunately they haven’t followed Lisp in all ways! [...]

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