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phoe-krk
on Nov 27, 2021
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The melancholy decline of the semicolon
A semicolon in Lisp starts a comment. Despite how bad some comments can be, I kinda doubt comments are the source of all evil in general.
pfdietz
on Nov 27, 2021
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I had been hoping this was about lisp comments. :)
erik_seaberg
on Nov 29, 2021
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To be fair, it can be a bit terrifying to read a Lisp form that
even the author
thought required a comment.
phoe-krk
on Nov 29, 2021
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Why? Code requires comments regardless of language in order to explain the
why
as opposed to the
what
. See e.g.
https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/search?q=kludge
for examples.
erik_seaberg
on Nov 30, 2021
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Yeah, I’m just riffing off Lisp’s reputation for intellectual overconfidence.
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