Who is this guy?
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
In the beginning, there was Planet Lisp, and life was good. However, there are a number of blogs that aren't covered by Planet Lisp and that have Lisp (or even non-Lisp! ;-) ) content that I like to read, so I subscribe to quite a few other RSS blog feeds. Just recently, I've started to pay particular attention when I see a post from José Antonio Ortega Ruiz's programming musings blog. I don't know who he is and he's only been posting to this blog for a couple of months, but just about every post he writes is worth reading. He posts on a range of different topics - his current category list (with posting count) is:
- Artificial Intelligence (1)
- Books (8)
- C (2)
- Common Lisp (11)
- Conjure (3)
- Elisp (3)
- Emacs (4)
- Essays (7)
- Haskell (3)
- Lisp (22)
- Metaprogramming (15)
- Objective-c (4)
- Programming (15)
- Scheme (23)
- Slate (1)
- Smalltalk (11)
- Top ten (1)
- Version control (3)
((I m a g i n e)
(shriram@cs.rice.edu)
(((Imagine there's no FORTRAN)
(It's easy if you try)
(No SML below us) (Above us only Y)
(Imagine all the people)
(Living for their Chez))
((Imagine there's no memory leaks)
(It isn't hard to do)
(Nothing to malloc(3)
or free(3) for)
(And no (void *) too)
(Imagine all the people)
(Living in parentheses))
((You may say I'm a Schemer)
(But I'm not the only one)
(I hope someday you'll join us)
(And the world will be as
(lambda (f) (lambda (x) (f x)))))
((Imagine those continuations)
(I wonder if you can)
(No need for C or pointers)
(A brotherhood of Dan)
(Imagine all the people)
(GCing all the world))
((You may say I'm a Schemer)
(But I'm not the only one)
(I hope someday you'll join us)
(And the world will be as
(lambda (f) (lambda (x) (f x)))))))
By the way, in case the subtlety of my post's title was too subtle (my
sense of humour is a bit odd ;-) ), it
was a take-off on a line from the movie
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid": "I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys?"
