Lisp Humor

(eq today (car (cdr life)))


-- (Author unknown)

CommonLisp has other ways of saying car and cdr that, according to taste, either wreck that joke or clarify it.

[For example:

(eq today (first (rest your-life)))


- JayOsako]

You can still say car and cdr, though... I think, by the way, that I prefer

(eq today (car (cdr (life you))))


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Q: How many Lisp programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: A whole CAR full.

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When my first wife left me, she took everything. The kids, the house, the car. She didn't even leave me the cdr!

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Bumper sticker: "My other CAR is a CDR"

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One day a student came to Moon and said: "I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons."

Moon patiently told the student the following story:

"One day a student came to Moon and said: `I understand how to make a better garbage collector ...'"

(see http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html for more of these).