Calvin's Dad Explains: Every Language Is Either Lisp or C

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A four-panel meme built from an edited 1990 Calvin and Hobbes strip (© Universal Press Syndicate). Panel 1: Calvin's dad walks toward Calvin, who sits by a record player, saying 'PLAYING with types? I'LL SHOW YOU SOMETHING INTERESTING.' Panel 2: the dad, spinning a record, declares 'The two types of programming languages are Lisp and C. All languages fall into these two categories.' with overlaid logo pairings: Haskell? Lisp. Java? C. Calvin replies 'YEAH...'. Panel 3: more pairings with logos - Ruby? Lisp. Python? C. - and the dad concludes 'Despite having C-like syntax, JS is a Lisp.' Panel 4: Calvin lies wide-eyed and traumatized in bed, the classic existential-dread closing frame. The meme plays on the real lineage argument that JavaScript was originally conceived as Scheme-in-the-browser (closures, first-class functions, dynamic typing) despite wearing Java/C syntax for marketing reasons

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick JavaScript is a Lisp wearing C's clothes to get past Netscape marketing - and like all great disguises, we only noticed after it shipped to every device on Earth

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

JavaScript is a Lisp wearing C's clothes to get past Netscape marketing - and like all great disguises, we only noticed after it shipped to every device on Earth
Anonymous

JavaScript is Scheme in a C trench coat wearing Java’s stolen name badge.
@mihanizzm 3mo

ASM?💀
1. @b7sum 3mo
  
  C
@mihanizzm 3mo

Prolog?💀
1. @b7sum 3mo
  
  Lisp
  
  @mihanizzm 3mo
  
  Piet?😢
  
  @b7sum 3mo
  
  C
  
  @mihanizzm 3mo
  
  Whyyyy
  
  @b7sum 3mo
  
  you can pretty much call it visual asm
@Daonifur 3mo

They may be referring to functional vs (other) programming here
@jooorn 3mo

А чо насчёт 1С? (Wat ‘bout “Odin Ass”?!)
1. @M4lenov 3mo
  
  It's kinda derivative of Java so C
.same name 3mo

why js text is not centred😡
1. @kobe_koto 3mo
  
  because cSs is awes ome
@Vlasoov 3mo

HWND is not HANDLE🧐
1. @deimossos 3mo
  
  I like your funny magic words
@RiedleroD 3mo

I'm sorry but python being C is the wrongest statement I've heard in a while
@death_by_oom 3mo

Many lisp implementations are also written in C
@chupasaurus 3mo

Technically it's undefined since dependent on implementation, nothing stops to make one in Lisp.
1. @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  aye. there's plenty of python implementations, CPython is just the reference implementation.
2. @sysoevyarik 3mo
  
  You are the reason why this emoji has widespread use -> 🤓
  
  @chupasaurus 3mo
  
  You are the reason why software goes to shit: you still haven't learned to understand what you're reading.
@JackOhSheetImSorry 3mo

Browser?
1. @deimossos 3mo
  
  I think files, as browsers' primary purpose is to render files
@LonelyGayTiger 3mo

I think graphics could honestly go either way. Depends a lot on exactly what you're doing. Your 2D games are obviously files, but if you're working on full path tracing, that's obviously math.

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