@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com
Post #2307967
2026-05-09 22:32 UTC
Replies (19)
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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io 2026-05-09 22:33
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com having a "they hated him because he told the truth" moment about Python being categorized as C, here
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@dpk@chaos.social 2026-05-09 22:40
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com @fogti@chaos.social I am slightly more cruel and say the two types are Lisp and assembly, but yeah
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@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-09 22:44
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com But you can write Fortran in all of them
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@aesthr@wandering.shop 2026-05-09 23:00
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com lukewarm take: Rust is a Lisp
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@zzzeek@hachyderm.io 2026-05-09 23:37
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com calvin can't sleep because he is thinking "well then what is PERL ?"
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@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net 2026-05-09 23:42
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com Objective C manages to be both.
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@traecer@techhub.social 2026-05-10 00:45
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com Despite having C-ish syntax, Perl is also a Lisp.
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@doctorgoktor@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 01:49
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com the real mindfuck is when you learn C++ and Rust and Swift are C, but C is Lisp
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@EndlessMason@hachyderm.io 2026-05-10 14:57
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com Perl is the most upsetting lisp
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@sovietfish@todon.eu 2026-05-10 22:39
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com Thanks be to Douglas Crockford
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@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange 2026-05-11 00:57
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com ((((L))(I)))(S))(P)))))))
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@zkat@fedi.zkat.tech 2026-05-11 06:48
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com no lies detected
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@SkylerHandler@woof.group 2026-05-11 11:19
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com Rust
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@hardaker@fosstodon.org 2026-05-11 11:56
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com I recently wrote the first true artificial general intelligence implementation in lisp. To prove it, I'll reveal my last 100 characters of the source code: )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) #notactuallymjoke
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@xameer@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-11 12:22
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com no! you gotta explain this what about ocaml? c or lisp ?
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@MartyFouts@mastodon.online 2026-05-11 13:21
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com Prolog has entered the chat.
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@nlupo@amikejo.xyz 2026-05-11 16:49
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com Unfortunately Javascript is a terrible Lisp.
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@developing_agent@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 19:03
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com Despite having a C-like syntax, TCL is a lisp. https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Lisp
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@tippfehlr@chaos.social 2026-05-11 20:42
@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com TIL that the JavaScript logo is unofficial