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"Kudos to Bram Cohen and team for inventing a form of Lisp that massively inconveniences anyone who needs to buy a hard drive in the next five years. This is a huge leap forward for Lisp, which for decades had only caused pain to the people who used it"

from: twitter.com/Pinboard/status/13

i love lisp and programmed in common lisp for many years, and i still find this pretty funny.

though i would argue that most of the pain in lisp is caused by other lisp users.

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