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mdemare on Oct 25, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using Lisp at Paragent

And Ruby dragged the Java programmers halfway to Lisp. Who will drag the Ruby programmers halfway to Lisp? We'll never get to Lisp at this rate, but we'll approach it ever closer.

tritchey on Oct 25, 2007 | [–]

I think there is a turtle and a hare involved at some point here...

icey on Oct 25, 2007 | | [–]

Nice GEB reference, upmods for you!

youngnh on Oct 26, 2007 | [–]

wrong. The sum of an infinite geometric series is a finite sum. If an infinite parade of new languages each drag us halfway to lisp eventually we'll all be programming in it

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