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Grex Systems Item 87: With Apologies to Robert Frost - by Randall Munroe
Entered by remmers on Wed Sep 5 11:11:23 UTC 2007:

               A God's Lament

      Some said the world should be in Perl;
      Some said in Lisp.
      Now, having given both a whirl,
      I held with those who favored Perl.
      But I fear we passed to men
      A disappointing founding myth,
      And should we write it all again,
      I'd end it with
      A close-paren.

                         -Randall Munroe
                          http://xkcd.com/312/

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by djdoboy on Wed Sep 5 13:05:59 2007:

In the beginning there was Mathematics
And all was good
Then one day God said "Let there be the Lambda Calculus"
And hence the Lambda Calculus was born.
However, God felt the the Lambda Calculus needed a mate.
So god said "Let there be Lisp"
And thus, Lisp was born.

As the years went on, god became depressed by how impure the Lisp had become.
From the Lisp came Emacs Lisp, Java, Perl, Python, and Ruby.

#2 of 4 by h0h0h0 on Thu Jan 17 04:21:07 2008:

I like this cf.

#3 of 4 by tsty on Sun Mar 2 04:10:41 2008:

  
  pretty interstring site:


  http://xkcd.com/312/

#4 of 4 by tsty on Thu Dec 2 08:28:38 2010:

  
adn as is thins ... which was used in teh aacs presentation tonight on sqlite
and basalmic prgramming wirefraames:
  
  http://xkcd.com/327/   
  
tee-hee

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