[PRL] Old parentheses just fade away

Matthias Felleisen matthias at ccs.neu.edu
Thu Feb 15 10:45:08 EST 2007


MacArthur's quote has been adapted for rockers. (I believe Neil Young  
was my inspiration.) I have adapted it to PhD students who have been  
with a program for a certain time. -- Matthias




On Feb 15, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Mitchell Wand wrote:

> (let
>   ((mac-arthur-quote "old soldiers don't die, they just fade away")
>    (and 'and)
>    (neither 'neither)
>    (other-song-title "A Lighter Shade of Pale"))
>  `(actually ,neither of those were intended to be song allusions .   
> (The first is from Douglas MacArthur (,mac-arthur-quote) ,and I  
> used it
>    just to make the message look interesting . (I didnt even notice  
> the allusion to ,other-song-title . (I was just using the words  
> literally)))))
>
> Is that enough of a quasi-quote from a song for you?
>
> --Mitch
>
>
>
> On 2/15/07, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Dale Vaillancourt wrote:
>
> > I haven't seen a page like that, but Shriram used that transition in
> > his LL1 talk while he was explaining the DFA macro.  Googling "Swine
> > Before Perl" yields the slides.  -Dale
>
>
> He did and we preached the idea for years and years in the TS!
> workshops.
>
> It is also a habit of mine to use quasi-quotes from songs to make
> my point but your subject line and your message body use two
> different songs so it isn't clear to me whether you're looking
> for specific words/phrases or just the idea.
>
> I do say that I heard this idea in Indiana.
>
> I also won't claim any specific words but I did get Cormac
> to graduate with the "fade away" line.
>
> -- Matthias
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Mitchell Wand wrote:
> >
> >> I recall seeing a while back a page explaining how an experienced
> >> Scheme programmer no longer "sees" parentheses-- he showed an
> >> example several times, talking about it and painting the parens in
> >> lighter and lighter shades of gray.
> >>
> >> Do any of you remember seeing this?  I haven't thought of a good
> >> way of searching for it.  I don't remember what the example was.
> >>
> >> --Mitch
> >>
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