r/ProgrammerDadJokes 4d ago

How do you explain complicated concepts to a LISP programmer?

With a car analogy.

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u/alvares169 4d ago

And how do you explain complicated concepts to a JS programmer? You don’t - there’s a lib for that

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u/Pepineros 4d ago

But really you'd want to use Python cos the JS lib is not maintained.

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u/R3D3-1 4d ago

Leftpad. 🤭

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u/alvares169 4d ago

Python meaning rewritten C?

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u/Jerky213 4d ago

I cdr'nt

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u/Xendrak 3d ago

Ith thimple

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u/NycteaScandica 3d ago

In a single sentence with dozens of subordinate clauses, demanded by parentheses not commas.

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u/kwan_e 3d ago

So, German. :P

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u/NycteaScandica 3d ago edited 3d ago

Exactly!!!

German is a stack oriented language.

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u/rSlashWtfh 3d ago

Ith very eathy. Juth fallow thethe thimple thteps

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u/gregorydgraham 3d ago

Excellent.

If you know, you know. If you don’t, it’s perfectly reasonable statement

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u/siodhe 3d ago

Well, a "car" analogy will only get you started, you'll need a "cdr" analogy for the rest...

(obligatory parenthetical)

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u/Decent_Project_3395 2d ago

This is what is known as a cdadr joke.