By Maxwell Hansen

#lang racket (let ((the-dance last) (never rest)) (unless the-dance (is-a? 'funeral '())))

(defun the-end-of-programming () (let ((Penderall (author-of (the function most-general)))) (the function most-general) (not (neededp (any-other))) (equalp (the function most-general) (every possible-program in under 10 forms)) (let ((us (funcall (the function most-general)))))))

For when I found the holy lisp

So pure the curves that are parens

With a report merely one short text

Of beauty's simplicty I knew that lisp was for me

But then there was a choice

Of thousand page lisp's

That is when I prayed for mercy My goddess answered my call

With the flowers of recursion

And the lexical wildflower of scope

All around the syntax tree She said "Scheme shall show you the path

To beauty through simplicity

Not a thousand page lisp it is

But merely the essential fraction"

And I rejoiced and heeded her call

Found the purple tome of wizard's

The structure of the spells

And their interpretation

My eyes have been opened

To the spells of functions

And the beauty that lies

In the scheme that is



By r2q2

By John Carolan johnc (at) glock (dot) ie

"Reflecting in those things that might have been:

How Isaac Newton further far has seen

confronting that vast Ocean of Unknown

the shoulders that he stands on are his own.

First on his left, then his remaining hand

the half-dimensioned fractal of the strand.

Dreams (that he is dreaming in a dream)

the lithe recursive calculus of Scheme."

By Shriram Krishnamurthi

Posted to comp.lang.scheme on January 17, 1996, for Scheme's twentieth birthday: ((I m a g i n e) (shriram@cs.rice.edu) (((Imagine there's no FORTRAN) (It's easy if you try) (No SML below us) (Above us only Y) (Imagine all the people) (Living for their Chez)) ((Imagine there's no memory leaks) (It isn't hard to do) (Nothing to malloc(3) or free(3) for) (And no (void *) too) (Imagine all the people) (Living in parentheses)) ((You may say I'm a Schemer) (But I'm not the only one) (I hope someday you'll join us) (And the world will be as (lambda (f) (lambda (x) (f x))))) ((Imagine those continuations) (I wonder if you can) (No need for C or pointers) (A brotherhood of Dan) (Imagine all the people) (GCing all the world)) ((You may say I'm a Schemer) (But I'm not the only one) (I hope someday you'll join us) (And the world will be as (lambda (f) (lambda (x) (f x))))))) 'shriram

Jeremy Buhler on the Seasonal Lisp Machine

Let hackers and wireheads grovel and curse,

Chase pointers and seg fault in C;

Our LispM shall never fandango on core --

Content with hard CDR are we!

Tigger (John D. Ramsdell)

on Scheme:

ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/scheme-repository/doc/misc/TIGGER.html

1. Double double-oh-one trouble

2. Lambda turn to double bubble

3. Params and body annotated

4. Pointing where evaluated

5. If combination be in question

6. First eval each subexpression

7. Applying first to rest yields trouble

8. When thy first be double bubble

9. To apply beget a frame

10. Where bound each value be to name

11. Point thy frame where bubbles point

12. Frame and bubble be now joint

13. Body's value in this frame

14. Is what they combo's val became



Environmental Model Poem

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