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This looks like a long-term plan to kill linux. The only way to kill linux is from inside out.

Reading Kafka in german is so much more modern and musical than in english or any other language. Kafka in english sounds almost sentimental, less modern. At least thats my feeling. In english translators often break his long paragraphs and sentences. Samuel Beckett said that he used to read most of Kafka in german, especially the Castle - Das Schloß.

Depends what you are looking for but I would look into Slackware. http://www.slackware.com/

This is a classic: http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html Also check his open code lisp section! I would like to add as somebody whose first language was lisp, car/cdr never represented a problem. It looks more balanced than first/rest. The thing that got me were emacs, SICP lectures and the whole idea of lisp writing lisp. I don't think changing syntax would help much because lisp attracts certain types of people (I believe).

What happened with Fortress, fortran like enchanced language Guy Steele was developing with his team?

Common Lisp has several "print" functions.See: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_wr_p...

As a professional musician, classicaly trained, who just recently (I wasted a lot of time living in terminal and emacs while playing with linux distros) started learning programming from ground up I find Lisp, S-expressions and more functional approach attractive and comparable to music composition. If we take for example Bach fugues of Beethoven Sonatas we can see functional approach of may I say multiparadigm: development of motives, objects, augmentation, expanding themes(functions) that contain smaller themes (closures) etc.. The beauty and magic of SICP lectures and their may I say musical approach to composing higher abstractions is just plain better than pure python or javascript tutorials that I tried learning from. Not to mention amazing talks and writings from Alan Kay, Guy Steele, Pg, Norvig and other hackers who for me define the essence of hacking and programming. The whole point of writing lisp in itself is like some strange Bach or Mozart read/eval loop that never stops. I am far from being an average user of lisp but I keep doing it day and night. It is not easy though. The only sad thing is so many people dismiss lisp and I see finding a job will also not be an easy thing. By the way I am open for internships in some lisp shops, I would work for free. I dont know how much I can contribute but I could at least clean extra parentheses (thats a joke! :)))

I think Jim Carrey pointed one obvious thing about laughing in his hillarious way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRyYT62VZdY

Steele interviews McCarthy, a really nice interview http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Steele-Interviews-John-McCar...

Or google-fu: allintitle:whatsapp understand site:news.ycombinator.com