Comment on A startup's "Why we use Lisp" storyComments−skilldrick16yI don't understand why a Lisp hacker wouldn't match parens properly when ending a parenthetical statement with a smiley: (commentless, of course :) Hasn't he seen xkcd: http://xkcd.com/541/ ?−mbrubeck16yIf you do it the double-chinned XKCD way, it messes up your auto-balancing text editor.−praptak16yIf you read XKCD and use an auto-balancing editor for plaintext then you should have no problems modding it to recognize emoticons.−skilldrick16yOf course! I take it all back.−loup-vaillant16y…which you obviously use to write your e-mails.−LogicHoleFlaw16yI use my text editor for typing everything. Scratch buffers are a wonderful thing.−BrandonM16yApparently you don't know anyone who spends 90% of their working time in emacs.−loup-vaillant16yI do. :-(whoops, I don't : he uses the other editor).
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I don't understand why a Lisp hacker wouldn't match parens properly when ending a parenthetical statement with a smiley:
Hasn't he seen xkcd: http://xkcd.com/541/ ?If you do it the double-chinned XKCD way, it messes up your auto-balancing text editor.
If you read XKCD and use an auto-balancing editor for plaintext then you should have no problems modding it to recognize emoticons.
Of course! I take it all back.
…which you obviously use to write your e-mails.
I use my text editor for typing everything. Scratch buffers are a wonderful thing.
Apparently you don't know anyone who spends 90% of their working time in emacs.
I do. :-(whoops, I don't : he uses the other editor).