What's so great about jazz?
Friday, September 23, 2005
Every so often, some troll appears on c.l.l. and asks something along the lines of "What's so great about lisp?". Today, someone asked that exact question:
"What's so great about lisp?Usually, regulars either tell the troll to go away, or try to provide educated answers on the (usually mistaken) assumption that the inquiry might be genuine, or just ignore the troll. Amidst the other responses, Drew Crampsie provided what is probably destined to become a c.l.l. classic:
I had to use lisp in college for a course, and it looked like a horribly primitive and useless contraption. We even had to use emacs to use it, in the 21 century!. I have avoided it ever since. However I find more and more people rhapsodizing about how cool Lisp is and what an advanced language it supposedly is. I just don't get it: I mean do those people claim that we have made no progress in all the years since the early days of computing when lisp was used?
I'd like to know, what's the secret?"
"What's so great about jazz?He finished up with a quote by Louis Armstrong:
I had to listen to jazz in college for a course, and it sounded like a horribly primitive and toneless composition. We even had to use records to hear it, in the 21 century!. I have avoided it ever since. However I find more and more people rhapsodizing about how cool Jazz is and what an advanced genre it supposedly is. I just don't get it: I mean do those people claim that we have made no progress in all the years since the early days of recording when jazz was used?
I'd like to know, what's the secret?"
"Man, If you have to ask what jazz is you'll never know"
