Jimmy

I got 4 hours and 20 minutes of sleep last night (give or take 5 minutes), so I’m content to sit and read the archives of xkcd all day, maybe I should say “I’m too tired to do anything else”, rather than “content to”.

At any rate, I thought this comic was funny enough to post. Background: the idea is that sometime early in everyone’s programming career the young new programmer should learn Lisp just for the great feeling that you get when you finally figure it out. Of course this doesn’t inspire much confidence in the time before you figure it out that you spend tearing your hair out (at least not in me, although I will try to learn it at some point), but ah well.

(Click for full size version.)

Of course, I’m still holding on to the possibility that it’s all just a big plot to get young, eager programmers to torture themselves trying to figure out something that’s needlessly complex, but perhaps that’s good for young, eager programmers, in a “you must learn early the hard ways of life” sort of way. (He says. Acting like he’s not also a young, eager programmer.) Of course, knowing what I know about the hacker culture, I’m not sure this is very likely.

I think I’m probably in a very cynical mood today.

-jimmy

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