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Hunger 2 (Programming) by Dovina

;LISP (defun hunger ;This time do it, and forget ;your silly “syntax error” ;and “bad data type.” (while hungry (if food ;if it’s offered (smell) (taste) (eat) );end if food );end while hungry ;eventually you will get full (search-desires) (fulfill-desires) (hunger) ;Now go back ;to the start ;and don’t complain. ;Keep looping. ;It’s all you get. );end defun hunger

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 3-Mar-05/7:07 PM
1. My dear, if 'food' was a function, it would have brackets around it to evaluate it. We both know it's not a reserved word. Let's face it, it's a global variable.

2. Anyone operating on a cognitive level above that of a pea is perfectly capable of matching up opening and closing parentheses without the aid of indentation. And since it's against convention, which makes it uncomfortable and annoying to read for people accustomed to convention, it's equivalent to wearing a bin on one's head and charging head-first into the sea.

3. I can't expect anyone without a billowing, rockmage-like beard to understand how comments actually tend to make code harder to read. Naive, comforting faith in comments is endemic to the ladies' world of AUTOCAD, and I doubt I will convince you otherwise, so I shan't bother.




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