4th level indirection -- maybe you haven't yet seen this?

[JONL at PARC-MAXC]

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 82 21:49:00 GMT
Original-Date: 3 Nov. 1982 1:49 pm PST (Wednesday)
From: Treichel.PA
Subject: Lisp Song
To: CIS^
Reply-To: Treichel

Have you seen this?

			Jeanie

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 82 21:23:00 GMT
Original-Date: 3 Nov. 1982 4:23 pm EST (Wednesday)
From: Gafter.Henr
Subject: LISP song
To: AllWhimsy^.pa, Language^, Gottwald, KAnderson
cc: Gafter

This was in the uucp bboard net.jokes recently.

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From decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!roderick Mon Nov  1 14:24:35 1982

Another Glitch in the Call
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   (Sung to the tune of a recent Pink Floyd song.)


We don't need no indirection
We don't need no flow control
No data typing or declarations
   Hey! Did you leave the lists alone?

Chorus:
   All in all, it's just a pure-LISP function call.

We don't need no side effect-ing
We don't need no scope control
No global variables for execution
   Hey! Did you leave those args alone?

(Chorus)

We don't need no allocation
We don't need no special nodes
No dark bit-flipping in the functions
   Hey! Did you leave the bits alone?

(Chorus)

We don't need no compilation
We don't need no load control
No link edit for external bindings
   Hey! Did you leave that source alone?

(Chorus, and repeat)


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