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  • Re: 2 Lisp Haikus

    From Kaz Kylheku@21:1/5 to Hen Hanna on Mon May 15 22:07:36 2023
    On 2023-05-15, Hen Hanna <henhanna@gmail.com> wrote:

    Some Lisp haiku ( written by Oliver Scholz ) posted in honour of John McCarthy

    ---

    On a cloudy day
    you hear the cons cells whisper:
    "We are lost and gone."


    The file was open.
    flying in a sparrow stole
    a parenthesis
    --- (posted) By israelrt at Tue, 2011-10-25



    -------------- i'm not sure if i'm getting the 2nd one.

    A file was left open. A sparrow flew in, and flew off with a parenthesis plucked from the file, thus causing a mysterious appearance of a problem
    that didn't exist before.

    This conflates the concept of a file being open (associated with an
    in-memory file descriptor by the operating system, so that operations
    are possible) and something like a room's window being left open.

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  • From Hen Hanna@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 15 14:40:03 2023
    Some Lisp haiku ( written by Oliver Scholz ) posted in honour of John McCarthy

    ---

    On a cloudy day
    you hear the cons cells whisper:
    "We are lost and gone."


    The file was open.
    flying in a sparrow stole
    a parenthesis
    --- (posted) By israelrt at Tue, 2011-10-25



    -------------- i'm not sure if i'm getting the 2nd one.




    (Lispy GIF Art) -- When (writing Lisp with Vim) (the *Neon Colors* are Dazzling ! )
    https://i.redd.it/gjn8amwym1061.gif
    geeky Lisp-Art by HenHanna

    ----------- any ideas about a Python version of this ???

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  • From Hen Hanna@21:1/5 to Kaz Kylheku on Mon May 15 15:34:31 2023
    On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 3:09:11 PM UTC-7, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2023-05-15, Hen Hanna <henh...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Some Lisp haiku ( written by Oliver Scholz ) posted in honour of John McCarthy

    ---

    On a cloudy day
    you hear the cons cells whisper:
    "We are lost and gone."


    The file was open.
    flying in a sparrow stole
    a parenthesis
    --- (posted) By israelrt at Tue, 2011-10-25



    -------------- i'm not sure if i'm getting the 2nd one.
    A file was left open. A sparrow flew in, and flew off with a parenthesis plucked from the file, thus causing a mysterious appearance of a problem that didn't exist before.

    This conflates the concept of a file being open (associated with an in-memory file descriptor by the operating system, so that operations
    are possible) and something like a room's window being left open.



    thanks... 2 thoughts i had were:

    1. the line [flying in a sparrow stole] sounds a bit awkward

    isn't the meaning more clear like this?

    > a flying-in sparrow stole
    > a sparrow, flying in, stole
    > a sparrow (flying in) stole
    > a sparrow flew in and stole


    2.
    (The file was open.
    a sparrow (flew in and) stole
    a parenthesis

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  • From Kaz Kylheku@21:1/5 to Hen Hanna on Tue May 16 00:35:57 2023
    On 2023-05-15, Hen Hanna <henhanna@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 3:09:11 PM UTC-7, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2023-05-15, Hen Hanna <henh...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Some Lisp haiku ( written by Oliver Scholz ) posted in honour of John McCarthy

    ---

    On a cloudy day
    you hear the cons cells whisper:
    "We are lost and gone."


    The file was open.
    flying in a sparrow stole
    a parenthesis
    --- (posted) By israelrt at Tue, 2011-10-25



    -------------- i'm not sure if i'm getting the 2nd one.
    A file was left open. A sparrow flew in, and flew off with a parenthesis
    plucked from the file, thus causing a mysterious appearance of a problem
    that didn't exist before.

    This conflates the concept of a file being open (associated with an
    in-memory file descriptor by the operating system, so that operations
    are possible) and something like a room's window being left open.



    thanks... 2 thoughts i had were:

    1. the line [flying in a sparrow stole] sounds a bit awkward

    isn't the meaning more clear like this?

    "flying in" is a phrase describing a secondary, parallel action to the sparrow's activity of stealing. Or possibly, a kind of adjective phrase identifying the sparrow.

    Usually, in writing it is set off from the sentence by commas,
    especially if extraposed out to the left. It can be appear to multiple
    possible locations in the sentence:

    Flying in, a sparrow stole a parenthesis.

    A sparrow, flying in, stole a parenthesis.
    (Nuance: secondary action.)

    A sparrow flying in stole a parenthesis.
    (Nuance: that sparrow which was flying in.)

    ? A sparrow stole, flying in, a parenthesis.

    ? A sparrow stole a parenthesis, flying in.

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