XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 31/12/2025 18:55, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-31, c186282  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 12/30/25 20:01, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2025-12-31, c186282  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>      Ah, LISP, the only language composed entirely   
   >>>>      of randomly spaced brackets  :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> Lots of Irritating Spurious Parentheses   
   >>   
   >>     Were they parens ? It's been a long time.   
   >>   
   >>     Anyway ... seemed that 99% of the lang was   
   >>     nothing but those ... nesting nesting nesting   
   >>     and more nesting until you couldn't keep track   
   >>     of it at all.   
   >   
   > I wonder whether it's coincidence that the Structured Programming   
   > revolution was happening at about the same time.  Lots of tiny   
   > modules ... nesting nesting nesting and more nesting until you   
   > couldn't keep track of it at all.   
   >   
   And needed to resort to LongJmp to get out of it all.   
      
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